Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Possessed by an unreasoning passion or attraction.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Manifesting extravagant folly; caused by infatuation: as, an infatuated passion for cards.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Overcome by some foolish passion or desire; affected by infatuation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
infatuate . - adjective Marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness
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Examples
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Skinner an 'the Colonel is what you might call infatuated with me, and
Kilo : being the love story of Eliph' Hewlitt, book agent Ellis Parker Butler 1903
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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.
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Uhhh, Walters says she was "infatuated" with Brooke.
John Ridley: Remind Me Never to Have an Affair with Barbara Walters 2008
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But she was like a lot of people, kind of infatuated with the candidate.
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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.
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Others are kind of infatuated by her presence -- I ` m going to guess this would be men -- and so it ` s helping her cause.
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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.
The Jervaise Comedy 1910
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It's just a kind of infatuated fascination of a moth -- not for a candle, but for a great, brilliant motor lamp.
Set in Silver 1901
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It seemed's though he was kind of infatuated with her.
In Exile and Other Stories Mary Hallock Foote 1892
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At length I came to my journey's end; and, having knocked at the door, looked round with a kind of infatuated fear.
The Adventures of Hugh Trevor Thomas Holcroft 1777
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