Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Characterized by or indicative of stupidity; stupid; infatuated.
- Made sottish by drink; stupefied by habitual intoxication.
Wiktionary
- adj. infatuated
- adj. intellectually or morally blinded
- adj. intoxicated
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of besot.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Made sottish, senseless, or infatuated; characterized by drunken stupidity, or by infatuation; stupefied.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. very drunk
Examples
“Are aliens voyeuristically studying a very small plot of earth, mainly a rain besotted suburban backyard and shed?”
“How wretchedly are those intoxicated and besotted that suffer themselves at any time to be intoxicated, especially to be by the frequent commission of the sin besotted with wine or strong drink!”
“So wretchedly besotted is he that he takes his slothfulness to be his wisdom; he thinks it is his wisdom to make much of himself, and take all the ease he can get, and do no more in religion than he needs must, to avoid suffering, to sit still and see what other people do, that he may have the pleasure of finding fault with them.”
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
“Since when is saying you have met, know and like someone the same as being 'besotted' with them?”
“Now, haven't heard ya 'besotted' has won the Orange Prize?”
“You may be some kind of besotted seer who can see certain things, but you can't see everything!”
“He says that when the Londoners found the King 'besotted' with his favourites, they sent word to Queen Isabella that if she could land in England with”
“Ms Marshall and other family members confronted the "besotted" Ms Fisicaro.”
“Mrs Casey met Mr Tolfrey in 2002 and her daughter Emma de Waal said she was "besotted" with him and cared for him more than for Ling.”
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
“Granatino, an investment banker turned Oxford University researcher, claims that he did not know what he was agreeing to when he signed the document, as he was "besotted" after a”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘besotted’.
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EN - archaic words
abide, abjure, abroad, adamant, afield, aforetime, aghast, anon, apace, argent, assuage, aught and 328 more...
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Any words List Its open!!
Im savin it for later
awesepoto
cooliest
sup
a-w-e-s-o-m-e
cool beans dude
hit me man
Rock on
Get a life dude
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Words from Blood Meridian
visage, affray, scullery, miasma, mirth, purlieu, tacit, benighted, wickiup, corral, amble, accoutre and 210 more...
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Filter 1
Hard words level 1
besotted, altricial, consecrate, consternate, desuetude, detractor, dissolute, divisive, emaciated, enamored, ensconce, garishly and 76 more...
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GRE Reference
A list of words unfamiliar to me that I have repeatedly encountered in GRE question sets.
parochial, clique, salacious, aegis, ostracize, conceited, sacrilegious, inane, serendipity, gourmand, polemic, tenuous and 138 more...
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Drunkie
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alcoholize, usquebaugh, whiffled, vinous, enology, aleconner, gambrinous, alcofrolic, perfect barf, bibulous, bleezed, brannigan and 144 more...
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ICE
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elicit, educe, refute, cogency, churlish, martinet, veritable, polyglot, dissemble, histrionics, prevarication, verbiage and 166 more...
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opprobrium, tedium, encomium, odium, ire, enmity, beguile, wile, brazen, popinjay, squit, hoity-toity and 1161 more...
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chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Many may be lexicographically impotent due to a lack of citations and definition. Hopefully I'll be able to rectify this eventually.velleity, dispositive, bloviate, bibulous, fungible, concupiscence, avuncular, carnaptious, thrawn, hypocoristic, diegesis, lagniappe and 928 more...
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newGRE
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imbue, verge on, nonchalant, deliberate, timorous, futile, provisional, dissect, checked, tinged, alluring, visionary and 1046 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
Tweets
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noele this definition is sub-optimal Nov 26, 2008