Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. A past participle of smite.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Struck hard; afflicted; visited with some great disaster; suddenly or powerfully affected in body or mind: sometimes used in compounds, as fever-smitten, drought-smitten, love-smitten.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- p. p. of smite.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness
- adj. (used in combination) affected by something overwhelming
Etymologies
- Old English verb smittian "to pollute", cognate with German schmitzen, to pollute, and through Middle Low German with Danish smitte, to infect. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The term smitten is here significant and deserves our serious consideration.”
“It's a clever mix of slightly blurred actual history and fiction that Sarah Bower has created, and I was smitten from the very first page on finding myself right in the thick of battle, fire-tipped arrows and severed hands the lot.”
“I am still a fan of Fairy Tales and remain smitten with any story that begins, “Once upon a time …””
“While I watched in smitten disbelief, he began furiously licking whatever salty ankle-sweat he found there -- his whole 12 oz. body thrashing back and forth with the adorable joy of a pup who hasn't figured out yet how to wag his tail without knocking himself over.”
“It's no secret that I am enamored with the tablet computer (did I really use the word smitten in my early review?), but there are some definite drawbacks here, too.”
“I would never dream of saying I was 'smitten' -- with _you_.”
“And here, because I’m totally smitten, is Anna looking absolutely GORGEOUS in some silly magazine:”
#205 ~ Rabid Lamb Comics (and a mini-review of True Blood) « 1979 Semi-Finalist…
“(Yes, celebrating is the right word -- I think Mr. Majors has pioneered what could be called the smitten narrator.)”
“Or James may be said of jaculum, a dart and copis smiting, which is to say smitten with a dart, or smitten with glaives.”
“i love when people say "smitten" - it's so often appropriate. how cute!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘smitten’.
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Sue's favorite words
panache, flair, pantaloons, periwinkle, pumpernickel, persnickety, cachet, coquette, élan, iris, ambrosia, keen and 99 more...
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2nd part
prelude, ample, escalate, prototype, accession, acquisition, archives, zealot, indict, verdict, intimidating, timid and 454 more...
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day8
transient, thrive, peripheral, diminish, counterfeit, peddling, vaunted, seldom, lionize, fortuitous, untimely, predictable and 20 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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#faveword
Words chosen as favorites for the Twitter hashtag #faveword.
autumnal, grotto, chiaroscuro, sfumato, homunculus, zing, zest, effervescent, bewitch, avuncular, susurrus, Styrofoam and 205 more...
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vocab 2
accrue, lenity, pellucid, smitten, implore, scrupulous, recalcitrant, melancholy, trudge, reverie, convivial, corrigible and 19 more...
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Relationship's
Everyone goes through a relationship in their lives, at moments this could be the best thing that could've ever happened. The next you wonder why did you let it happen..
love, butterflies, attachment, unity, force, trust, lack, interest, tension, adore, worship, devotion and 6 more...
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Phrases from British novels, between ...
lust legs and lip..., lawner, clettering, cletter, big business, pointless, feckless, aimless, graceless, something nasty i..., cold comfort, mollock and 61 more...
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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Twitter faves
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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niglets, aw, flakey, shiznit, thatch, sexy, bummers, hotty, eargasms, ratchetry, weird, fab and 597 more... -
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 3063 more... -
Sense and Sensibility
Words from the book by Jane Austen.
shew, shewn, shewing, shewed, dupe, wither, rambled, extorting, cavil, rap, mildness, controuled and 133 more...
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words that make your tongue dance
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Personal Vocabulary List
All my favourite words that I come across!
veritable, incongruence, rigamorole, letcherous, revolting, repulsive, reputrid, rapatious, forays, guise, placate, paradigm and 1162 more...
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africasunsets's list
serendipity, fragrance, glamour, smitten, nourish, lavish, luxury, wicked, gem, daring, soothe, fantasy and 192 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for smitten.
roseandivy Also, why does Roget's Thesaurus II list "sex" as an antonym? Apr 23, 2010
roseandivy So, if you are smitten with someone, he has smote you? That's a strange way to conduct romance. Apr 23, 2010
BrainyBabe Love, the most tactless, the most bohemian of gods, had appeared just when he was not wanted, and smitten Scales boisterously between the shoulder-blades.
-- ''Yashima, or, The Gorgeous West'' by R T Sherwood, 1931. Dec 23, 2008
amandansmith I'm a smitten kitten. I love the word smitten. It's beyond romantic.. Sep 9, 2007
seanahan Literally from the verb smite, I smite, I smote, I had smitten. The metaphorical sense is all that survives, as people very rarely use this verb any more. Feb 20, 2007