Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: homesick
IPA transcription: [h'oʊms,ɪk]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: homesick
    Meaning: longing to return home
Usage examples
  • Polly was homesick.
  • She looked homesick."
  • Homesick at Briarwood!
  • She was always sorry for homesick people.
  • I suppose everybody must be always just a little homesick."
  • To tell the truth, Margaret was tired, discouraged, and homesick.
  • I was homesick for Wisconsin, homesick for real and simple people. I wanted to go home!
  • But Frithiof was often homesick, and longed to enter a harbor, and lead again a life of peace.
  • If, when a newly-married couple go to housekeeping, she slyly takes her mother's dish-cloth or dish-wiper, she will never be homesick.
  • No doubt the creatures were frogs, but of some kind new to me, with voices more lugubrious and homesick than I should have supposed could possibly belong to any batrachian.