| infatuat | He is infatuated with Alice. |
| infatuate | (v) arouse unreasoning love or passion in and cause to behave in an irrational way, Example: His new car has infatuated him; love has infatuated her |
| infatuation | (n) a foolish and usually extravagant passion or love or admiration |
| infatuation | (n) an object of extravagant short-lived passion |
| Infatuate | a. [ L. infatuatus, p. p. of infatuare to infatuate; pref. in- in + fatuus foolish. See Fatuous. ] Infatuated. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Infatuate | v. t. The judgment of God will be very visible in infatuating a people . . . ripe and prepared for destruction. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ] The people are . . . infatuated with the notion. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Infatuated | a. Overcome by some foolish passion or desire; affected by infatuation. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Infatuation | n. [ LL. infatuatio: cf. F. infatuation. ] The act of infatuating; the state of being infatuated; folly; that which infatuates. [ 1913 Webster ] The infatuations of the sensual and frivolous part of mankind are amazing; but the infatuations of the learned and sophistical are incomparably more so. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ] Such is the infatuation of self-love. Blair. [ 1913 Webster ] |