infatuate
to inspire or possess with a foolish or unreasoning passion, as of love.
to affect with folly; make foolish or fatuous.
infatuated.
a person who is infatuated.
Origin of infatuate
1Other words from infatuate
- in·fat·u·a·tor, noun
- self-in·fat·u·at·ed, adjective
- un·in·fat·u·at·ed, adjective
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How to use infatuate in a sentence
If you’re in a similar situation and are infatuated with moss, you can do the same.
Her narrator’s experiences in the translation box raise some of the same questions as Edna O’Brien’s novel “The Little Red Chairs,” which imagines the life of a woman briefly infatuated with a man she doesn’t realize is Radovan Karadzic.
Barack Obama’s summer reading pick ‘Intimacies’ is an unsettling novel about moral dilemmas | Ron Charles | July 13, 2021 | Washington Postinfatuate, who from such a good estrange Your hearts, and bend your gaze on vanity, Alas for you!
The Vision of Paradise, Complete | Dante AlighieriBut he had an infatuate haughtiness as to the impossibility of his retreating, and as to his right to dictate your course.
Oscar Wilde, Volume 2 (of 2) | Frank HarrisYet we urge it on, mindless and infatuate, and plant the ill-ominous thing in our hallowed citadel.
The Aeneid of Virgil | Virgil
Will it be believed that the infatuate Master Cino spent the rest of the night in a rapture of poetry?
Little Novels of Italy | Maurice Henry HewlettAfter a month of these a fastidious writer may well infatuate a reviewer.
British Dictionary definitions for infatuate
to inspire or fill with foolish, shallow, or extravagant passion
to cause to act foolishly
literary a person who is infatuated
Origin of infatuate
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