homesick

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• feel: I don't get home very often and find myself feeling a little bit homesick sometimes.
• make: Keep up the good work, you're making an ex-Swansea boy very homesick!

Modifying Another Word

• quite: Your site is looking fantastic these days - made me quite homesick!
• little: Visited in Sept 02 and after seeing the pictures and reading some of the gossip, I'm just a little homesick!
• really: I get really homesick and miss my family, but I've got a really solid group of friends at home.
• very: Your website has made us very homesick - keep up the good work.
• so: He helped me settle in at a time when I was so homesick I just wanted to go back home.
• desperately: She had been turned out of her home in a northern town, after a quarrel with her parents, but was desperately homesick.

Used with adjective complement

• feel: Feeling homesick, they somehow found their way back to Hope on their own.
• get: Already we were getting homesick, we had only left the key!
• become: I have sent them a link to this site so they are informed about Dundee and do not become homesick so much.

Modifies a noun

• ex-pats: Until a few years ago Setanta was beaming domestic sport to homesick Irish ex-pats in pubs and clubs.
• exile: I want to thank everyone at CWN for making the celebration available to us homesick overseas exiles.
• blue: Mackie's is just the thing for treating my homesick blues!
• visitor: Estartit restaurants include local Catalan cuisine and freshly caught fish along with plenty to satisfy homesick British visitors.
• today: I'm in Canada and feeling very homesick today so your email really made me cheer up!
• child: Would they get the telephone call midweek about their homesick child?