Infatuated
[ɪn'fætjʊeɪtɪd] or [ɪn'fætʃuetɪd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Infatuate
(a.) Overcome by some foolish passion or desire; affected by infatuation.
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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.
- For wherever Mr. Joseph Sedley went, she travelled likewise, and that infatuated man seemed to be entirely her slave. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Sold to the devil for the time being, I was certainly infatuated. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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