Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Possessed by an unreasoning passion or attraction.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Manifesting extravagant folly; caused by infatuation: as, an infatuated passion for cards. Synonyms Absurd, Silly, Foolish, etc. (see
absurd ); deluded, doting. See alsolist under foolish .
Wiktionary
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of infatuate.
- adj. Marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Overcome by some foolish passion or desire; affected by infatuation.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness
Examples
“Skinner an 'the Colonel is what you might call infatuated with me, and”
“Being in Columbia, SC, you don't necessarily get a lot of the big shows and I was kind of infatuated with Michael Hutchence at the time.”
“If you think "infatuated" is perhaps too strong a word, Media Matters reports that FOX mentioned "ACORN" 1,500 times in October alone -- 1,300 more times than CNN.”
“Uhhh, Walters says she was "infatuated" with Brooke.”
John Ridley: Remind Me Never to Have an Affair with Barbara Walters
“But she was like a lot of people, kind of infatuated with the candidate.”
“Others are kind of infatuated by her presence -- I ` m going to guess this would be men -- and so it ` s helping her cause.”
“He was, as Miss Tattersall had said, "infatuated," but I put a more kindly construction on the description than she had done -- perhaps "enthralled" would have been a better word.”
“It's just a kind of infatuated fascination of a moth -- not for a candle, but for a great, brilliant motor lamp.”
“It seemed's though he was kind of infatuated with her.”
“At length I came to my journey's end; and, having knocked at the door, looked round with a kind of infatuated fear.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘infatuated’.
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ravyn's randy words
Words that are as fun to say as do!
amorous, impassioned, infatuated, enamored, desirous, vehement, ecstasy, frenzy, sentiment, relations, coition, audacious and 16 more...
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SAT words
tergiversate, cymotrichous, vigilance, wince, consternation, cower, neutralize, euphony, cacophony, misanthrope, bibliophile, kleptomania and 81 more...
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Morthalion's Words
supercilious, kvetch, kvass, splurge, erroneous, pugnacious, macabre, gauche, conglomerate, abyss, paraphernalia, kleptomania and 285 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 2369 more... -
Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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bumwank, calamity, recalcitrant, gayenese, jeeze, nonsense, flabbergasted, juxtapose, procrastinating, ossanity, biffing, loser and 1972 more... -
newGRE
mostly from magoosh
imbue, verge on, nonchalant, deliberate, timorous, futile, provisional, dissect, checked, tinged, alluring, visionary and 1046 more...
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State Spelling Bee 2011
Words from the California State Spelling Bee in 2011, from which I got fourth place.
cymbidium, jurisprudence, entourage, cauterize, dressage, roux, pomaceous, malfeasance, jactitation, eclogue, caryotid, obloquy and 126 more...
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junestag's Words
postmodernism, cat, fish, rabbit, dell, coffee, elearning, mazda, php, mysql, flash, blogger and 755 more...
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Speaking in Tongues - an REM list
Words heard in various REM songs that I enjoy and that I think are indicative of the band. Not too literally, of course.
pilgrimage, pageant, suspicion, penitence, gentlemen, chronic, stigma, deadlier, transit, fortunate, momentum, misconstrued and 162 more...
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Norman Lewis
All Words
ebullient, eccentric, eclectic, edify, efface, effusion, egalitarian, egocentric, egoist, egregious, elicit, elliptical and 907 more...
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Great Race Horse Names3
Poetry in motion
lookalike, flying incognito, harmonizing, hanky panky, hobgoblin, sinister sister, mouthy, hedonistic ways, decisionist, lost in love, twixt, turbulent thinking and 50 more...
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adjectives
veritable, pejorative, pertinent, benign, gullible, specious, delinquent, evocative, delirious, snippy, pithy, lenient and 69 more...
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Terms of Endearment
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C to K; K to C, in a way that is not Calvin Klein.magnificent, radiant, oneiric, smitten, infatuated, juxtapose
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cherodactyl's list
presque vu, jamais vu, deja vu, infatuated, cavalier, infatuation
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