lovesick

[ luhv-sik ]

/ ˈlʌvˌsɪk /

languishing with love: a lovesick adolescent.

expressive of such languishing: a lovesick note.

Origin of lovesick

First recorded in 1520–30; love + sick¹

love·sick·ness, noun

On Pushing Daisies, her Olive Snook was lonely, lovesick, and brokenhearted, while still positively hysterical.

Kristin Chenoweth on Her Darker Role in ‘Family Weekend’ |Kevin Fallon |March 27, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
"The matter is grave," he said solemnly, when at length the lovesick and angry swain had finished.

Lysbeth |H. Rider Haggard
From the moment she entered his presence he was her slave, as anxious to do her will as any lovesick boy.

Love affairs of the Courts of Europe |Thornton Hall
Soon he became so lovesick, that he felt he would risk or give his life to get and have her for his own.

Welsh Fairy Tales |William Elliott Griffis

He tells them how he became “the lovesick boy” first of one and then of another.

The Standard Light Operas |George Upton
Yes, only to be stopped by a lovesick brigand and run down like a truant schoolboy.

Man And Superman |George Bernard Shaw

lovesick

/ (ˈlʌvˌsɪk) /

pining or languishing because of love

lovesickness, noun