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Enamored

Definition: Enamored

Enamored

Adjective

1. 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: Enamored

Synonyms: crazy (adj), dotty (adj), gaga (adj), in love (adj), infatuated (adj), smitten (adj), soft on(p) (adj), taken with(p) (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Enamored

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Enamored

English words defined with "enamored": Amorosobecharm, beguile, bewitchcaptivate, capture, catch, charmenamor, Enamorment, enamour, enchant, entrancefascinateInamoratelovetrance. (references)
Specialty definitions using "enamored": Conservative. (references)
Etymologies containing "enamored": Enamor. (references)

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Modern Usage: Enamored

DomainUsage

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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Commercial Usage: Enamored

DomainTitle

Books

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Familiar Quotations: Enamored

AuthorQuotation

Alexis de Tocqueville

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather by equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Enamored

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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.

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Expression: Enamored

Expression using "enamored": be enamored of. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Enamored

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

enamored

9
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Enamored

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

   

Romanian

  

fi îndrãgostit de (be enamored of, be enamoured of). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

влюбленный (amorous, enamoured, in love, lovey-dovey, passionate, spoony). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zaljubljen (enamoured, love: in love, lovesick, spoony). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

enamorado (admirer, amorous, enamoured, in love, lovesick, Valentine). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

förälskad (amorous, enamoured, in love, inamorata, inamorato, infatuated), betagen (enamoured, overcome). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Enamored

Derivations

Words ending with "enamored": coenamored, overenamored. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Enamored"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "enamored" (pronounced ena"merd)
4-a" m er dclamored, hammered.
3-m er darmored, humored, murmured, rumored, shimmered, simmered.

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Anagrams: Enamored

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Enamored


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 6E 61 6D 6F 72 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01101110 01100001 01101101 01101111 01110010 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#110 &#97 &#109 &#111 &#114 &#101 &#100

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)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3980677981847170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Quotations: Familiar
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Derivations
12. Rhymes
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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