Synonyms for homesick
ˈhoʊmˌsɪkhome·sick

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1. homesickadjective

   longing to return home

   Antonyms:
   undesiring, undesirous

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1. List of paraphrases for "homesick":

   nostalgic

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How to use homesick in a sentence?

1. Edgar Watson Howe:

   When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have.

2. Bill Evers:

   He was a little homesick, at the end of the year he had to get a couple of base hits just to hit over.200.

3. Gary Zimet:

   They are not quite as important, as iconic, 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' is certainly a major, major song but not in the same league as 'The Times They Are A-Changin'.

4. Leith Khdeir Abbas:

   I feel homesick and humiliated.

5. Newt Gingrich:

   It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated.