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lovesickly

lovesickly adverb: in a lovesick manner.

Adverb

lovesickly (comparative more lovesickly, superlative most lovesickly)

  1. In a lovesick manner.
    • ...and, most of all, a romantic figure like Errol Flynn to captain the Sea Hawks, to be loyal to the Queen, to gaze lovesickly into the big, beautiful, cowy, Spanish eyes of Brenda Marshall, to lead his stalwart men (Alan Hale, J. M. Kerrigan, William Lundigan and all the others including an...1940, Michael Williams, Commonweal - Volume 32, page 371
    • Not to phone or meet her or hang around lovesickly.1968, Glendon Fred Swarthout, Loveland, page 160

Adjective

lovesickly (comparative more lovesickly, superlative most lovesickly)

  1. Characterized by or suffering from lovesickness to an uhealthy degree.
    • This wretched victim whose once-victorious arms are now rendered impotent by the misunderstanding of a message from his Sin-Par cannot be the real Amadís, the Doncel del Mar, the Caballero de la Espada Ardiente, only his lovesickly shadow.1987, Gene H. Bell-Villada, Antonio Giménez, George Pistorius, From Dante to García Márquez
    • On the lovesickly, languorous "Flowerz," garage vocalist Roland Clark swoons amid a heat-haze of sound, again spun from a spangly, filtered disco loop.1999 October, “Reviews”, in SPIN, volume 15, number 10

Examples of lovesickly in a sentence

  • We faced each other from opposite walls of the well-rubbed stairtower poised in an unblinking lovesickly gaze.2001, Flavia Alaya, Under the Rose: A Confession, page 114:
  • People speak of a “sickly” child; I was a lovesickly child.2015, William Humphrey, Farther Off from Heaven: A Memoir:

Forms of lovesickly

Adverb
comparativemore lovesickly
superlativemost lovesickly
Adjective
comparativemore lovesickly
superlativemost lovesickly

Origin of lovesickly

From lovesick + -ly.

Questions about lovesickly

What does lovesickly mean?
Lovesickly means in a lovesick manner.
How do you use lovesickly in a sentence?
We faced each other from opposite walls of the well-rubbed stairtower poised in an unblinking lovesickly gaze.
What part of speech is lovesickly?
Lovesickly can be an adverb or an adjective.

Words near lovesickly in the dictionary

  1. loveseats
  2. loveship
  3. loveships
  4. loveshy
  5. lovesick
  6. lovesickly
  7. lovesickness
  8. lovesicknesses
  9. lovesmith
  10. lovesmiths
  11. lovesome

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