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[syn: enamored, infatuated, in love, potty, smitten, soft on(p), taken with(p)]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Infatuate \In*fat"u*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Infatuated; p.
pr. & vb. n. Infatuating.]
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1. To make foolish; to affect with folly; to weaken the
intellectual powers of, or to deprive of sound judgment.
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The judgment of God will be very visible in
infatuating a people . . . ripe and prepared for
destruction. --Clarendon.
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2. To inspire with a foolish and extravagant passion; as, to
be infatuated with gaming.
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The people are . . . infatuated with the notion.
--Addison.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Infatuated \In*fat"u*a`ted\, a.
Overcome by some foolish passion or desire; affected by
infatuation.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
infatuated
adj 1: marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness; "gaga over the
rock group's new album"; "he was infatuated with her"
[syn: enamored, infatuated, in love, potty,
smitten, soft on(p), taken with(p)]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
118 Moby Thesaurus words for "infatuated":
apish, asinine, at fever pitch, batty, becharmed, befooled,
beguiled, besotted, bewitched, brainless, buffoonish, captivated,
charmed, cockeyed, crazy, credulous, daffy, daft, dazed, delirious,
dizzy, doting, dotty, dumb, easily taken in, easy of belief,
enamored, enchanted, enraptured, enthused, enthusiastic,
enthusiastic about, fanatical, fascinated, fatuitous, fatuous,
febrile, feverish, fixated, flaky, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish,
frantic, frenetic, frenzied, fuddled, full of enthusiasm, furious,
futile, gaga, glowing, goofy, gripped, gulled, gung-ho,
heartsmitten, hectic, held, hung-up, hypnotized, hysteric, idiotic,
imbecile, inane, inclined to believe, inept, infatuate,
infatuated with, insane, keen on, kooky, loony, mad, maudlin,
mesmerized, monomaniac, monomaniacal, moronic, nutty, obsessed,
overanxious, overconfiding, overcredulous, overdesirous, overeager,
overenthusiastic, overtrustful, overtrusting, overzealous,
perfervid, possessed, preoccupied, prepossessed, sappy, screwy,
senseless, sentimental, silly, smitten, spellbound, stupid,
superstitious, taken with, thoughtless, trustful, trusting,
ultrazealous, uncritical, undoubting, unskeptical, unsuspecting,
unsuspicious, wacky, wet, wild, witless