infatuated

Preposition: with

• object: We are absorbed in and infatuated with the objects we experience through the six doors.
• idea: Somehow we have become infatuated with the idea that exactness will bring us closer to a final picture of the hidden mysteries around us.
• cleaner: I bought this book for my son when he was 2 because he was infatuated with vacuum cleaners.
• wife: Later on, David becomes infatuated with the wife of one of his generals.
• colleague: Q - I am infatuated with a female work colleague and can't bring myself to make love to my wife any longer.
• car: I wish Americans were not so infatuated with big cars.

Modifying Another Word

• so: No, surely he could not have done anything so infatuated.
• completely: The only person, beside herself, who can't see this is Everton, who's completely infatuated with her.
• still: Maria Callas died in 1977, two years after Onassis, with whom she was still infatuated.
• totally: In 1884 Lord Alfred Douglas attended a dinner and Wilde became totally infatuated.
• strangely: I've read books, looked at websites and become strangely infatuated with the whole artform.
• quite: He is quite proprietorial in his outlook toward my servant; I believe the man is still quite infatuated with her!

Used with adjective complement

become: Meet an aspiring young actress who becomes infatuated with a legend of the Silver Screen.

Modifies a noun

• man: And more than this, he was conscious of a growing desire to see the infatuated man himself.
• lover: Marie always had a large herd of infatuated young lovers from which she feeds.