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ˈlʌvˌsɪklovesick

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. lovesickadjective

    languishing because of love

    "strong men behaving like lovesick boys"

Wiktionary

  1. lovesickadjective

    Behaving oddly, or as though in distress, due to being overcome by feelings of love.

  2. lovesickadjective

    Having an aching desire for one's beloved.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Lovesickadjective

    Disordered with love; languishing with amorous desire.

    Etymology: love and sick.

    See, on the shoar inhabits purple spring,
    Where nightingales their lovesick ditty sing. Dryden.

    To the dear mistress of my lovesick mind,
    Her swain a pretty present has design’d. John Dryden, Virg.

    Of the reliefs to ease a lovesick mind,
    Flavia prescribes despair. George Granville.

Wikipedia

  1. Lovesick

    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.

ChatGPT

  1. lovesick

    Lovesick is an emotional condition characterized by intense feelings of longing, affection, or infatuation, often accompanied by sadness, anxiety, or physical symptoms, due to unrequited love or the absence of a loved one.

Wikidata

  1. Lovesick

    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.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of lovesick in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of lovesick in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

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