homesick
Use Homesick in a sentence
adjective
sad or depressed from a longing for home or family while away from them for a long time.
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homesick (ˈhəʊmˌsɪk) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| depressed or melancholy at being away from home and family | |
| 'homesickness | |
| —n | |
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Homesick
is always a great word to know.
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Example sentences
Discuss with these students the idea of being homesick or being happy to be home after a long vacation.
War weary and homesick, they would soon find that the life they knew prior to the war no longer existed.
The logic behind it is that the new bride won't miss her old village as much and will be less likely to get homesick.
She left the seminary, homesick and ill with the flu, but unconverted to church membership.
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