Definitions for homesick

homesick home·sick

Spelling: [hohm-sik]
IPA: /ˈhoʊmˌsɪk/

Homesick is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 263 anagrams from letters in homesick (cehikmos).

Definitions for homesick

adjective

  1. sad or depressed from a longing for home or family while away from them for a long time.

Origin of homesick

First recorded in 1790-1800; home + sick1

Examples for homesick

And now I'm going to bed—well, not homesick, you know, but just 'longing a lil bit for all.'

I also found that Hofbräu-Festzelt is the tent of choice for homesick English-speakers.

If I hadn't been just going I'd have been too homesick for words.

Who it helps: homesick troops, many of them on their second, third, or even fourth deployment.

He was going to be homesick for that cottage and its contents.

I wanted you to see the last of that town under a cloud, so you might not be homesick so soon.

If she is at all uncomfortable or homesick, Lamb promises to take her to the nearest airport and send her back to her mom.

She was homesick, lonely, and longed to return to the movies—a proposal nixed by the Monegasques and her spouse.

I guess, Tom, that we will be kept too busy to get homesick.

For the first time in her life she realized what it meant to be homesick.

Word Value for homesick
Scrable

19

Words with friends

20

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