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Definition: Enamored |
EnamoredAdjective1. Marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness; "she was crazy about him"; "gaga over the rock group's new album"; "he was infatuated with her". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "enamored" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: EnamoredSynonyms: crazy (adj), dotty (adj), gaga (adj), in love (adj), infatuated (adj), smitten (adj), soft on(p) (adj), taken with(p) (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Love | Burn; adore, idolize, love to distraction, aimer eperdument; dote on, dote upon; take a fancy to, look sweet upon; become enamored; Adjective: fall in love with, lose one's heart; desire. |
Adjective: loving; Verb: fond of; taken with, struck with; smitten, bitten; attached to, wedded to; enamored; charmed; Verb: in love; love-sick; over head and ears in love, head over heels in love. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Enamored |
| English words defined with "enamored": Amoroso ♦ becharm, beguile, bewitch ♦ captivate, capture, catch, charm ♦ enamor, Enamorment, enamour, enchant, entrance ♦ fascinate ♦ Inamorate ♦ love ♦ trance. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "enamored": Conservative. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "enamored": Enamor. (references) |
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Screenplays | Then you understood right, Merivel Miss Clemence is to be married and seemingly dispatched out of London with her husband, while in fact, I secrete her near the river in queue - the better to sport with her unobserved For her husband, I need a man who is far too enamored of women in general to make the mistake of loving one in particular (Restoration; writing credit: Rupert Walters) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Enamored (2000) | |
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Alexis de Tocqueville | Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather by equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | CONSERVATIVE, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expression using "enamored": be enamored of. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
enamored | 9 |
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| Language | Translations for "enamored"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i dashuruar (enamoured, in love, loving). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | متيم (enamoured, gone, infatuated, lovelorn, lovesick, mad), عاشق (amorous, enamoured, in love, junkie, lover, suitor, swain). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | влюбен (amatory, amorous, enamoured, falling in love, in love, smitten). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 迷恋 (Enamor, enamour, Fascination). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | verliebt (amatory, amorous, amorously, enamoured, falls in love, fond), machte verliebt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szerelmes (amatory, amorous, enamoured, erotic, in love, lover, loving, nutty, spoon, sweetheart, sweetie), szerelemre gerjedt (enamoured). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | menggandrungi (enamored of, infatuated with). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | enamoreday fi îndrãgostit de (be enamored of, be enamoured of). (various references) влюбленный (amorous, enamoured, in love, lovey-dovey, passionate, spoony). (various references) zaljubljen (enamoured, love: in love, lovesick, spoony). (various references) enamorado (admirer, amorous, enamoured, in love, lovesick, Valentine). (various references) förälskad (amorous, enamoured, in love, inamorata, inamorato, infatuated), betagen (enamoured, overcome). (various references) tutulmak (attack, attaint, be at a premium, be enamored of, be enamoured of, be held, be in a request, be smitten with, be stuck, be stuck on, be taken, be taken with, catch on, come in, come up, drop, go into, have a crush on smb., incur, indulge, make a hit, smite, stiffen), gönül vermek (be enamored of, be enamoured of, lose one's heart to smb.), bayılmak (adore, be a sucker for, be enamored of, be enamoured of, be fond of, be taken by, be taken with, blackout, commune with oneself, conk, enthuse, faint, fall for, lose consciousness, pass out, swoon), aşık olmak (be enamored of, be enamoured of, be in love, be struck on smb., be stuck on, be sweet on smb., fall in love, have a crush on smb., lose one's heart to smb.). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "enamored": coenamored, overenamored. (additional references) | |
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"Enamored" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anamored, enamered, enamore, enamoured, enamured, enarmored, enemaed, enmired, enmured, Lenamore, namoore, Namorado, Namoree, unamored. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "enamored" (pronounced ena"merd) |
| 4 | -a" m er d | clamored, hammered. |
| 3 | -m er d | armored, humored, murmured, rumored, shimmered, simmered. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: demeanor. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-m-n-o-r" | |
-1 letter: amender, madrone, meander, moderne, reedman, renamed. | |
-2 letters: daemon, damner, demean, earned, emerod, enamor, endear, meaner, mender, moaned, moaner, modern, moreen, neared, normed, oedema, omened, radome, random, reamed, redone, remade, remand, remend, rename, roamed, rodman, rodmen. | |
-3 letters: adeem, admen, adore, adorn, ameer, amend, anode, armed, demon, denar, derma, donee, dream, drone, eared, edema, emend, ender, enema, enorm, erode, madre, maned, manor, menad, merde, monad, monde, morae, named, namer, nomad, oared, oread, radon, ramee, ramen, ranee, redan, redon, reman, roman. | |
-4 letters: aeon, aero, amen, dame, damn, dare, darn, dean, dear, deem, deer, deme, demo, dene, dere, derm, doer, dome, dona, done, dore, dorm, dram, dree, earn, erne, made, mane, mano, mare, mead, mean, meed, mend, meno, mere, moan, mode, mora, more, morn, name, nard, near, need, neem, nema, nerd, node, noma, nome, norm, odea, omen, omer, orad, rand, read, ream, rede, redo, reed, rend, road, roam, roan, rode. | |
-5 letters: ado, and, ane, are, arm, dam, dee, den, doe, dom, don, dor, ear, eme, end, eon, era, ere, ern, mad, mae, man, mar, med, men, moa, mod, mon, mor, nae, nam, nee, nod, nom, nor, oar, ode, one, ora, ore, rad, ram, ran, red, ree, rem, rod, roe, rom. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-m-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: demeanors, demeanour, ealdormen, enamoured, forenamed, promenade. | |
+2 letters: alderwomen, coenamored, commandeer, demeanours, dermatogen, endodermal, endometria, entodermal, freedwoman, manoeuvred, ornamented, overmanned, promenaded, promenader, promenades. | |
+3 letters: boomeranged, commandeers, demonstrate, dermatogens, dynamometer, embryonated, endometrial, misdemeanor, overmanaged, predominate, promenaders, remediation, renominated. | |
+4 letters: adrenochrome, aeromedicine, commandeered, commanderies, demonstrable, demonstrated, demonstrates, determinator, dynamometers, dysmenorrhea, impersonated, imponderable, misdemeanors, moderateness, overenamored, overmannered, predominance, predominated, predominates, prenominated, radioelement, randomnesses, remediations, remonstrated, renormalized, unornamented, ventromedial. | |
+5 letters: adrenalectomy, adrenochromes, adventuresome, aeromedicines, commandeering, compartmented, comradeliness, conglomerated, counterdemand, countermanded, demonstrative, determination, determinators, deuteranomaly, documentaries, dynamometries, dysmenorrheas, imponderables, intercompared, metronidazole, outmaneuvered, overdemanding, overdominance, predominances, predominately, premeditation, preordainment, radioelements, recommendable, retransformed. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 6E 61 6D 6F 72 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -. .- -- --- .-. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101110 01100001 01101101 01101111 01110010 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E n a m o r e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006E 0061 006D 006F 0072 0065 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3980677981847170 |
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