Infatuate
[ɪn'fætʃʊeɪt;-tjʊ-] or [ɪn'fætjʊɪt]
Definition
(verb.) arouse unreasoning love or passion in and cause to behave in an irrational way; 'His new car has infatuated him'; 'love has infatuated her'.
Typist: Willie--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Infatuated.
(v. t.) To make foolish; to affect with folly; to weaken the intellectual powers of, or to deprive of sound judgment.
(v. t.) To inspire with a foolish and extravagant passion; as, to be infatuated with gaming.
Checker: Shari
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Befool, besot, stultify, delude, make foolish, deprive of reason, deprive of sound judgment or common sense.
Checker: Noelle
Definition
v.t. to make foolish: to affect with folly: to deprive of judgment: to inspire with foolish passion: to stupefy.—adj. infatuated or foolish.—n. Infatuā′tion.
Typist: Toni
Examples
- The rich, pursued the infatuated and unconscious Donne, are a parcel of misers, never living as persons with their incomes ought to live. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Shirley, in spite of her whims and oddities, her dodges and delays, has an infatuated fondness for him. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- How could she allow herself to become so infatuated with a stranger? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- We are not infatuated with these French railway cars, though. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- She would come and talk to me about them with an infatuated and persevering dotage, strange to behold in a person not yet twenty-five. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I shuddered to hear the infatuated assertion. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It was their infatuated perseverance in an unjustifiable, a hopeless, a ruinous war, which had brought the nation to its present pass. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Edited by Lancelot