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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
lovesick
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He knew he was behaving like a lovesick teenager.
▪ You're acting like a lovesick teenager!
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ From Honk Kong comes a confusing romance about chance encounters between lovesick cops and unusual women.
▪ If only she weren't such a lovesick loon.
▪ If you're slim, honest and have a good sense of humour then send your photos to this lovesick laddie.
▪ In her writing she recounts a story about one lovesick cowboy who brandished a pistol at her.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
lovesick

also love-sick, 1520s, from love (n.) + sick (adj.).

Wiktionary
lovesick

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.

WordNet
lovesick

adj. languishing because of love; "strong men behaving like lovesick boys"

Wikipedia
Lovesick (1983 film)

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.

Lovesick (Priscilla Renea song)

"Lovesick" is a jazz pop song by American pop singer–songwriter Priscilla Renea, released as the second and final single from her debut album, Jukebox on January 12, 2010. The song is a jazz-influenced song with traces of R&B and pop and is lyrically about forbidden love.

Lovesick (Emily Osment song)

"Lovesick" is the second single performed by Emily Osment from her debut studio album, Fight or Flight (2010). It was released on February 4, 2011. The music video premiered on January 14, 2011, exclusively on MySpace. The EP version of the single has a different cover, using the same background photoshoot of Osment from the " Let's Be Friends" single cover. It also uses the same font as the album cover, but instead of reading "Fight or Flight", it reads "Lovesick". In the US, the single cover shows a picture of Osment from the Fight or Flight booklet.

In the United Kingdom the song was used as the official track, to promote popular multichannel ITV2 in the spring of 2011 and thus, has received strong download sales due to its popularity. The UK artwork uses the image seen on first single "Let's Be Friends". The single was released as Osment's debut release in the UK and managed to reach #2 on the official singles chart in South Korea.

Lovesick (EliZe song)

"Lovesick" is the sixth single by Dutch singer EliZe. The song is taken from her second album entitled More Than Meets the Eye. The single reached number #31 in the Dutch Top 40 and peaked at #15 in the Dutch Single Top 100. The single had its most success in Bulgaria, where it reached the #1 position in the national Top 40 and stayed there for six weeks.

Lovesick (1937 film)

Lovesick is a cartoon produced by Walter Lantz Productions. It features the later, post-1935 white-furred version of Oswald, together with his dog Doxie the dachshund.

Lovesick (2014 film)

Lovesick is a 2014 American comedy film directed by Luke Matheny and written by Dean Young. The film stars Matt LeBlanc, Ali Larter, Rachael Harris, Chevy Chase, Ashley Williams and Kristen Johnston. The film was released on February 6, 2015, by Gravitas Ventures.

Lovesick (TV series)

Lovesick (formerly known as Scrotal Recall) is a 2014 British sitcom created by Tom Edge which was broadcast on Channel 4. The series was filmed in Glasgow although the setting is unspecified.

A second series will air on Netflix. The series will consist of eight episodes which will be simultaneously released globally onto Netflix on 17 November 2016.

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.