- lacking sound judgment; foolish
- completely carried away by foolish or shallow love or affection
adjective
The definition of infatuated is having a fascination or intense liking for something.
An example of infatuated is a person involved in a short, but intense, summer romance.
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infatuated
adjective
Possessed by an unreasoning passion or attraction.
Related Forms:
- in·fat′u·at′ed·ly
adverb
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Verb
- simple past tense and past participle of infatuate
Adjective
(comparative more infatuated, superlative most infatuated)
- Marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness
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Sentence Examples
- He studied the small man infatuated with his phone.
- He's obviously infatuated with her.
- His one-night stand last week made him appreciate what it was to have a lover who was as infatuated by his body as he was hers.
- At first she had been infatuated with Denton, but in the last year she had learned a lot about him.
- The nobility, however, were too infatuated to be willing to adopt these wise measures.
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Words near infatuated in the dictionary
- infatuated
- infaring
- infashionable
- infatigable