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homesick

adjectiveattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈhəʊ̯m.sɪk//
  • United Kingdom/[ˈhəʊ̯m.sɪk]/
  • United States//ˈhoʊ̯m.sɪk//
  • United States/[ˈhoʊ̯m.sɪk]/

Missing one's home and family very much when away; nostalgic.

adjective

  1. 1

    Missing one's home and family very much when away; nostalgic.

    feel homesick

    become homesick

    deeply homesick

    She felt terribly homesick during her first month abroad.

Etymology

Back-formation from homesickness, equivalent to home + sick.

Forms

comparative
more homesick
superlative
most homesick
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).