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love·sick

(lŭv′sĭk′)

adj.

Unable to act normally as a result of being in love.

love′sick′ness n.

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lovesick

(ˈlʌvˌsɪk)

adj

pining or languishing because of love

ˈloveˌsickness n

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love•sick

(ˈlʌvˌsɪk)

adj.

1. languishing with love.

2. expressing passionate yearning: a lovesick note.

[1520–30]

love′sick`ness, n.

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Adj.

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

unhappy - experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent; "unhappy over her departure"; "unhappy with her raise"; "after the argument they lapsed into an unhappy silence"; "had an unhappy time at school"; "the unhappy (or sad) news"; "he looks so sad"

lovesick

adjective lovelorn, longing, desiring, pining, yearning, languishing a lovesick boy consumed with self pity

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Translations

مُضْنى بالحُب، وَلْهان

roztoužený láskou

forelsketkærestesyg

liebeskrank

ástsjúkur

malato d'amore innamorato pazzo

elskovssyk

chorý od lásky

kara sevdalı

害相思病的

lovesick

[ˈlʌvsɪk] ADJ → enfermo de amor

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

lovesick

[ˈlʌvsɪk] adj → qui se languit d'amourlove song n → chanson f d'amourlove story n → histoire f d'amour

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lovesick

[ˈlʌvˌsɪk] adj → malato/a d'amore

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

love

(lav) noun

1. a feeling of great fondness or enthusiasm for a person or thing. She has a great love of music; her love for her children.

2. strong attachment with sexual attraction. They are in love with one another.

3. a person or thing that is thought of with (great) fondness (used also as a term of affection). Ballet is the love of her life; Goodbye, love!

4. a score of nothing in tennis. The present score is fifteen love (written 15–0).

verb

1. to be (very) fond of. She loves her children dearly.

2. to take pleasure in. They both love dancing.

ˈlovable adjective

(negative unlovable) easy to love or like; attractive. a lovable child.

ˈlovely adjective

1. (negative unlovely) beautiful; attractive. She is a lovely girl; She looked lovely in that dress.

2. delightful. Someone told me a lovely joke last night, but I can't remember it; a lovely meal.

ˈloveliness noun

ˈlover noun

1. a person who enjoys or admires or has a special affection for something. an art-lover; He is a lover of sport; an animal-lover.

2. a person who is having a love affair with another.

ˈloving adjective

ˈlovingly adverb

love affair

a (temporary and often sexual) relationship between two people who are in love but not married.

ˈlove-letter noun

a letter expressing love.

ˈlovesick adjective

sad because of being in love. a lovesick youth; lovesick glances.

fall in love (with)

to develop feelings of love and sexual attraction (for). He fell in love with her straightaway.

for love or money

in any way at all. We couldn't get a taxi for love or money.

make love

to have sexual intercourse.

there's no love lost between them

they dislike one another.

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And, in spite of his absurd position as Liza's lovesick swain at his age, you ought to see how he carries off the absurd position.

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Still I did not venture to disobey the injunctions--crazy as I felt them to be--of the lovesick young Doctor, by so much as alluding to his existence: and it was only after they had given me full details of a projected picnic, to which they invited me, that Lady Muriel exclaimed, almost as an after-thought, "and do, if you can, bring Doctor Forester with you!

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In this secluded abode of happiness there were no cross old women, no cruel step-dames, no withered spinsters, no lovesick maidens, no sour old bachelors, no inattentive husbands, no melancholy young men, no blubbering youngsters, and no squalling brats.

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As she roars her song, in a voice of which it is enough to say that it leaves no portion of the room vacant, the three musicians follow her, laboriously and note by note, but averaging one note behind; thus they toil through stanza after stanza of a lovesick swain's lamentation: --

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A source compared the serial killer to a 'lovesick teen' and said Miss Smith sent him perfumed letters,The Sunreports.

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Gurning goon Farage looked like a lovesick groupie trying to get Elvis's autograph in that photo of the pair in a gold lift.