infatuated
Britishadjective
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Explanation
Think he has no faults? Blush when he walks by? You are infatuated. When you are infatuated, your crush is so severe that it's pretty darned foolish. Infatuation comes from the Latin infatuare which means "to make a fool of." You can be infatuated with a person, but you can also be infatuated with an idea: "Nick was so infatuated with the idea of knighthood that he wore a suit of armor to the prom, and asked to be called 'Sir Nicholas the Brave.'"
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Example Sentences
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Infatuated with nullity and with embodying the world, he transmuted all of life into literary experience, of the purest kind.
From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2021
Infatuated with beauty, class and esteem, Hartman attempted to capture the essence of the celebrities and fashion moguls whose poise she admired and whose socialite status she longed for herself.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 10, 2017
Infatuated Manhattanites were suckers for the sort of dishes that one satirist mocked as “potage au lay de mush” and “pattey de pumpkin.”
From New York Times • Oct. 9, 2014
Infatuated with each other in ways that are not entirely predictable, they begin to affect the lives of others, including her invalid father, her frustrated boyfriend and the heroine's chatty fellow manicurists.
From Seattle Times • May 18, 2011
Holding her off with his hand, he exclaimed, in a voice of mental agony, "Infatuated woman! leave me, for his honor and your own peace."
From Thaddeus of Warsaw by Porter, Jane
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