# homesick

Pronunciation: say "HOHM-sik" US /ˈhoʊ̯m.sɪk/, UK /ˈhəʊm.sɪk/

## Adjective

1. Feeling sad and longing for one's home and family while away from them.
   - Simple: Feeling sad because you are away from your home and miss your family.
   - _A month into the deployment, he grew homesick for his own bed and his mother's cooking._
   - _Many first-year students feel homesick when they realize how far they are from everyone they grew up with._

## Origin

A back-formation from "homesickness," equivalent to "home" plus "sick."

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/homesick (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).