lovesick
adjEtymology From love + sick.
1
Behaving oddly, or as though in distress, due to being overcome by feelings of unrequited or unfulfilled love.
- And she looked to Mr. –––– / And leered like a love-sick pigeon.1834 [1799], Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, “The Devil's Thoughts”, in The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, volume II, London: W. Pickering, page 86:
- I'm sick of love / I hear the clock tick / This kind of love / I'm lovesick1997, Bob Dylan, “Love Sick”, in Time Out of Mind:
2
Having an aching desire for one's beloved.
- Derived terms
- lovesickly, lovesickness
- Related terms
- limerence