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Pining for one's sweetheart
Answer for the clue "Pining for one's sweetheart ", 8 letters:
lovesick
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Word definitions for lovesick in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. languishing because of love; "strong men behaving like lovesick boys"
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also love-sick , 1520s, from love (n.) + sick (adj.).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Lovesick is a 1983 romantic comedy film . It was written and directed by Marshall Brickman . It stars Dudley Moore and Elizabeth McGovern and features Alec Guinness as the ghost of Sigmund Freud .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Behaving oddly, or as though in distress, due to being overcome by feelings of love. 2 Having an aching desire for one's beloved.
Usage examples of lovesick.
Part of him remained lovesick for Cassandra, and he had already given her his word to help.
Davis, the lovesick swam willing to pay a small fortune for the return of his wayward wife-to-be.
Once lovesick hordes started stampeding her office---at her full five-hundred-dollar-a-day fee---she was going to invest in a top-of-the-line portable phone.
If you are going to talk and behave like some lovesick shepherd boy, dispose of her I will.
And in order to escape from the lovesick girl who has in the meantime transferred all the contents of her closets into your apartment, you flee across the ocean, where you die in hopelessness and misery.
I am lovesick, and ungrown, and know no trope or toponymic topoi, no image worthy.
I tell you there is no one who has been witness to more lovesick fools than I.
More lovesick layabouts, he thought darkly, and rose to send them on their way, but paused when Kate and her fairy godmother, looking very pleased with themselves, entered the kitchen.
Gaviad, who sat in full armor, slumped forward with his face in his plate, snoring loudly enough to summon lovesick gappapaspes from the distant river.
He was trembling like a lovesick boy, he who had made his way through life always with a clear confident sense of how to attain his destination.
But a lovesick young man and a frustrated middle-aged womanput them together and you have the kind of team which created the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.
I tell you I have done nothing, and I will not justify the matter with an answer to his lovesick prose!
It hurt less to be betrayed by a lovesick friend than to have been made the butt of a colossal joke.
The next few days would be dangerous enough without his worrying about some lovesick woman.
In the night, lying sleepless, she told herself that she was behaving like a fool--a lovesick fool, she amended, determined to be honest with herself.