"lovesick" meaning in English

See lovesick in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more lovesick [comparative], most lovesick [superlative]
Etymology: love + sick Etymology templates: {{compound|en|love|sick}} love + sick Head templates: {{en-adj}} lovesick (comparative more lovesick, superlative most lovesick)
  1. Behaving oddly, or as though in distress, due to being overcome by feelings of love. Translations (behaving oddly due to love): rakastunut (note: in love) (Finnish), rakkaudesta sekaisin [adverb] (Finnish), énamouré (French)
    Sense id: en-lovesick-en-adj-8JLmO9M9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 95 5 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 93 7 Disambiguation of 'behaving oddly due to love': 97 3
  2. Having an aching desire for one's beloved. Categories (topical): Love Translations (having an aching desire for one's beloved): vlinders in je buik (Dutch), ikävöivä (Finnish), languissant (French), liebeskrank (German), angau (Malay), wewehe (Maori), томящийся от любви (tomjaščijsja ot ljubvi) (Russian), kara sevdalı (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-lovesick-en-adj-mlaSJ4hL Disambiguation of Love: 41 59 Disambiguation of "having an aching desire for one's beloved": 1 99
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: limerence

Download JSON data for lovesick meaning in English (3.3kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "love",
        "3": "sick"
      },
      "expansion": "love + sick",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "love + sick",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more lovesick",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most lovesick",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "lovesick (comparative more lovesick, superlative most lovesick)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "limerence"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "95 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "93 7",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997, Bob Dylan (lyrics and music), “Love Sick”, in Time Out of Mind",
          "text": "I'm sick of love / I hear the clock tick / This kind of love / I'm lovesick",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Behaving oddly, or as though in distress, due to being overcome by feelings of love."
      ],
      "id": "en-lovesick-en-adj-8JLmO9M9",
      "links": [
        [
          "oddly",
          "oddly"
        ],
        [
          "distress",
          "distress"
        ],
        [
          "love",
          "love"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "note": "in love",
          "sense": "behaving oddly due to love",
          "word": "rakastunut"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "behaving oddly due to love",
          "tags": [
            "adverb"
          ],
          "word": "rakkaudesta sekaisin"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "behaving oddly due to love",
          "word": "énamouré"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "41 59",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Love",
          "orig": "en:Love",
          "parents": [
            "Emotions",
            "Virtue",
            "Mind",
            "Ethics",
            "Human",
            "Philosophy",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having an aching desire for one's beloved."
      ],
      "id": "en-lovesick-en-adj-mlaSJ4hL",
      "links": [
        [
          "beloved",
          "beloved"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "having an aching desire for one's beloved",
          "word": "vlinders in je buik"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "having an aching desire for one's beloved",
          "word": "ikävöivä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "having an aching desire for one's beloved",
          "word": "languissant"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "having an aching desire for one's beloved",
          "word": "liebeskrank"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "note": "but preferably use a construction with the noun Liebeskummer",
          "sense": "having an aching desire for one's beloved"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "having an aching desire for one's beloved",
          "word": "angau"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "having an aching desire for one's beloved",
          "word": "wewehe"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "tomjaščijsja ot ljubvi",
          "sense": "having an aching desire for one's beloved",
          "word": "томящийся от любви"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "having an aching desire for one's beloved",
          "word": "kara sevdalı"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lovesick"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English compound terms",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "en:Love"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "love",
        "3": "sick"
      },
      "expansion": "love + sick",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "love + sick",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more lovesick",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most lovesick",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "lovesick (comparative more lovesick, superlative most lovesick)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "limerence"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997, Bob Dylan (lyrics and music), “Love Sick”, in Time Out of Mind",
          "text": "I'm sick of love / I hear the clock tick / This kind of love / I'm lovesick",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Behaving oddly, or as though in distress, due to being overcome by feelings of love."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "oddly",
          "oddly"
        ],
        [
          "distress",
          "distress"
        ],
        [
          "love",
          "love"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Having an aching desire for one's beloved."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "beloved",
          "beloved"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "note": "in love",
      "sense": "behaving oddly due to love",
      "word": "rakastunut"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "behaving oddly due to love",
      "tags": [
        "adverb"
      ],
      "word": "rakkaudesta sekaisin"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "behaving oddly due to love",
      "word": "énamouré"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "having an aching desire for one's beloved",
      "word": "vlinders in je buik"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "having an aching desire for one's beloved",
      "word": "ikävöivä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "having an aching desire for one's beloved",
      "word": "languissant"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "having an aching desire for one's beloved",
      "word": "liebeskrank"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "note": "but preferably use a construction with the noun Liebeskummer",
      "sense": "having an aching desire for one's beloved"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "having an aching desire for one's beloved",
      "word": "angau"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "having an aching desire for one's beloved",
      "word": "wewehe"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tomjaščijsja ot ljubvi",
      "sense": "having an aching desire for one's beloved",
      "word": "томящийся от любви"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "having an aching desire for one's beloved",
      "word": "kara sevdalı"
    }
  ],
  "word": "lovesick"
}
{
  "called_from": "translations/609-20230504",
  "msg": "Translation too long compared to word, so it is skipped",
  "path": [
    "lovesick"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "adjective",
  "title": "lovesick",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.