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Infatuated

adjective

Marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness. Synonyms: enamored, in love, potty, smitten, soft on, taken with. "He was infatuated with her"

Infatuate

verb

(past & past part. infatuated; pres. part. infatuating)

Arouse unreasoning love or passion in and cause to behave in an irrational way. "Love has infatuated her"

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"Infatuated" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the moment, or which my comrade employed at more length, after the mob had taken a different direction, could the unfortunate girl be prevailed upon to leave the prison. His arguments were all wasted upon the infatuated victim, and he was obliged to leave her in order to attend to his own safety. Such was his account; but, perhaps, he persevered less steadily in his attempts to persuade her than ...

— The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott

... believed it) had not lasted many weeks before she loved him: she even confessed she did, every time that any unwonted mark of attention from him struck with unexpected force her infatuated senses. ...

— Nature and Art • Mrs. Inchbald

... written in dejection near Naples." What the immediate cause of this was cannot be said; it seems to be one of the mysteries, or perhaps rather the one mystery, of Shelley's life. He asserted to Medwin that a lady, young, married, and of noble connections, had become infatuated with him, and declared her love of him on the eve of his departure for the Continent in 1816; that he had gently but firmly repulsed her; that she arrived in Naples on the day he did, and had soon afterwards died. It is suggested that a little girl who was left under his guardianship ...

— Mrs. Shelley • Lucy M. Rossetti

... Indians of the north arose from their being obliged to resort to in-door amusements during the protracted winters in that region. From this necessity the southern Indians being in a measure exempt, they continued their out-door games as usual and never became so thoroughly infatuated ...

— Indian Games • Andrew McFarland Davis

... long-dead side. When she was with him, thereby distracting his attention, he was entirely different from what he was when his men surrounded him. Apparently he had no knowledge of this. He showed surprise and gratitude at Joan's kindness though never pity or compassion for her. That he had become infatuated with her Joan could no longer doubt. His strange eyes followed her; there was a dreamy light in them; he was ...

— The Border Legion • Zane Grey

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