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Definition: Infatuated |
InfatuatedAdjective1. 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 "infatuated" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1660. (references) |
Synonyms: InfatuatedSynonyms: crazy (adj), dotty (adj), enamored (adj), gaga (adj), in love (adj), smitten (adj), soft on(p) (adj), taken with(p) (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Credulity | Adjective: credulous, gullible; easily deceived; simple, green, soft, childish, silly, stupid; easily convinced; over-credulous, over confident, over trustful; infatuated,Adjective: credulous, gullible; easily deceived; simple, green, soft, childish, silly, stupid; easily convinced; over-credulous, over confident, over trustful; infatuated, superstitious; confiding; (believing). |
Insanity | Fanatical, infatuated, odd, eccentric; hypped, hyppish; spaced out. |
Misjudgment | Narrow-minded, narrow-souled; mean-spirited; confined, illiberal, intolerant, besotted, infatuated, fanatical, entete, positive, dogmatic, conceited; opinative, opiniative; opinioned, opinionate, opinionative, opinionated; self-opinioned, wedded to an opinion, opini_tre; bigoted; (obstinate); crotchety, fussy, impracticable; unreasonable, stupid; credulous; warped. |
Motive | Induced; Verb: disposed; persuadable; (docile); spellbound; instinct with, smitten with, infatuated; inspired; Verb: by. |
Obstinacy | Arbitrary, dogmatic, positive, bigoted; prejudiced; creed-bound; prepossessed, infatuated; stiff-backed, stiff necked, stiff hearted; hard-mouthed, hidebound; unyielding; impervious, impracticable, inpersuasible; unpersuadable; intractable, untractable; incorrigible, deaf to advice, impervious to reason; crotchety. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Infatuated |
| English words defined with "infatuated": Assot ♦ crazy ♦ dotty ♦ enamored ♦ fall for ♦ gaga ♦ Idle-headed, in love ♦ smitten, soft on, stage-struck ♦ taken with. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "infatuated": Fag Hag ♦ Kema. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Two girls utterly infatuated with men who have larger than normal medulla oblongata's (Van Wilder; writing credit: Brent Goldberg; David Wagner) You are defending him because you've become infatuated with him (The Last of the Mohicans; writing credit: James Fenimore Cooper; John L. Balderston) | |
Lyrics | Wobble wobble I'm infatuated (Shake Ya Ass; performing artist: Mystikal) | |
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Alexandre Dumas | Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works. |
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| "Infatuated" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 69.81% of the time. "Infatuated" is used about 53 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 69.81% | 37 | 56,631 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 26.42% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 3.77% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 53 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "infatuated": become infatuated ♦ infatuated with smb.. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "infatuated": shoe-gazing-infatuated. | |
| 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 |
christina infatuated | 10 |
infatuated | 9 |
aguilera christina infatuated | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "infatuated"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i rënë në dashuri (in love), i magjepsur (bewitched, charmed, spellbound). (various references) | |
Arabic | مفتون (captivated by, charmed by, enchanted by, fascinated by, mad about, thrilled by), متيم (enamored, enamoured, gone, lovelorn, lovesick, mad), مخبول ب. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | оглупял (besotted, muzzy), заслепен. (various references) | |
Chinese | 情痴. (various references) | |
Czech | pobláznìný (crazed). (various references) | |
Finnish | sokaistua (be blinded, be dazzled, be infatuated), hullaantua johonkin (become infatuated with a person). (various references) | |
French | entiché, engoué, amoureux fervent. (various references) | |
German | schwärmerisch (effusive, enraptured, enthusiastic, fanciful, gooey, gushing, lyric, lyrical, lyrically, quixotic, quixotically), betörte. (various references) | |
Greek | ξετρελαμένοσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מוקסם (charmed, enchanted, fascinated), מאו"ב א"ב" עיורת. (various references) | |
Hungarian | rajongó (admirer, buff, ecstatic, enraptured, enthusiast, fan, fanatic, fanatical, freak, groupie), megszállott (cacodaemon, cacodemon, compulsive, obsessed, possessed). (various references) | |
Indonesian | keasyik-asyikan (deeply absorbed, sinniten). (various references) | |
Italian | infatuato (doting). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 溺れ込む (to become infatuated, to drown, to get addicted). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おぼれ"む (to become infatuated, to drown, to get addicted). (various references) | |
Manx | er cannoo lurg (lust). (various references) | |
Norwegian | blindt forelsket. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | infatuateday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | enfeitiado (hagridden), enfatuado (coxcombical, foppish, mad, overweening, pragmatical, self-satisfied, sidy), apaixonado (doting, enthusiastic, fond, heartwarming, hot-blooded, impassioned, in love, inamorato, lover, lovesick, nutty, passionate, spoony, stormy, swain, tropic, tropical, vehement, warm, warm-blooded). (various references) | |
Romanian | orbit, nebun (bad, bedlamite, bishop, brain sick, cracked, crazy, daft, delirious, demented, demoniac, distracted, distraught, extravagant, fool, foolish, frantic, frenzied, insane, lunatic, mad, mad about, madcap, madman, maniac, maniacial, moon-struck, potty, raving, reckless, unruly, wild), îndrãgostit nebuneşte (doting). (various references) | |
Russian | влюбленный до безумия, лишившийся рассудка, потерявший голову. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zaslepljen (blinded), zaluđen (mad, mad about, spoony), budalast (addle-brained, addle-pate, cock eyed, cockeye, daffy, dippy, dopey, dopy, foolish, half-witted, idleheaded, nitwitted). (various references) | |
Spanish | encaprichado, chiflado por, amado ciegamente. (various references) | |
Swedish | förtrollad (bewitched, pixilated, spellbound), förblindad (blinded), förälskad (amorous, enamored, enamoured, in love, inamorata, inamorato), blint förälskad, bedårad (besotted). (various references) | |
Thai | ซึ่งลุ่มหลง. (various references) | |
Turkish | karasevdalı (besotted, demented, elegiac, melancholic, spleenful, spleenish), delicesine aşık, aklı başından gitmiş. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | захоплений (absorbed, admiring, boffo, busy in, captive, captured, delighted, enthusiastic, enthusiastical, obsessed, rapt, rapturous), закоханий до нестями, збожеволілий. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | mê đắm, cu"ng dại mê tít. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Infatuated" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: enfatuated, infactuate, infactuated, infatrate, infattuate, infatuare, infatueted, infatuiate, infaturated. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "infatuated" (pronounced i'nfa"khuwā'tud) |
| 6 | -kh uw ā' t u d | punctuated, situated. |
| 5 | -uw ā' t u d | attenuated, devaluated, evaluated, graduated, reevaluated. |
| 4 | -ā' t u d | abrogated, accelerated, accentuated, acclimated, accommodated, abbreviated, abdicated, accumulated, activated, adjudicated, adulterated, advocated, affiliated, aggravated, aggregated, agitated, alienated, alleviated, allocated, alternated, amalgamated, ameliorated, amputated, angulated, animated, annihilated, anticipated, antiquated, appreciated, appropriated, approximated, arbitrated, articulated, aspirated, assassinated, assimilated, associated, authenticated, automated, backdated, bifurcated, caffeinated, calculated, calibrated, capitulated, captivated, carbonated, castigated, castrated, celebrated, chlorinated, circulated, collaborated, commemorated, communicated, compensated, complicated, concentrated, confiscated, congratulated, congregated, consecrated, consolidated, constipated, consummated, contaminated, contemplated, cooperated, correlated, corroborated, corrugated, crenelated, culminated, cultivated, deactivated, debilitated, decaffeinated, decapitated, decelerated, decimated, decontaminated, decorated, degenerated, delegated, deliberated, delineated, demonstrated, denigrated, denominated, depreciated, desegregated, designated, deteriorated, detonated, devastated, deviated, dictated, differentiated, dilapidated, interpolated, interrogated, intimated, intimidated, intoxicated, inundated, invalidated, investigated, invigorated, irradiated, irrigated, irritated, isolated, laminated, legislated, levitated, liberated, liquidated, litigated, located, lubricated, discriminated, disintegrated, disseminated, dissipated, domesticated, dominated, donated, duplicated, educated, elevated, eliminated, elucidated, emaciated, emanated, emancipated, emasculated, emigrated, emulated, encapsulated, enumerated, enunciated, eradicated, escalated, estimated, evacuated, evaporated, eviscerated, exacerbated, exaggerated, exasperated, excavated, excommunicated, excoriated, exhilarated, exonerated, expropriated, exterminated, extrapolated, extricated, fabricated, facilitated, fascinated, federated, fixated, flagellated, fluctuated, formulated, frustrated, generated, germinated, glaciated, gravitated, gyrated, halogenated, hesitated, humiliated, hydrated, hydrogenated, hyphenated, illuminated, illustrated, imitated, immigrated, impersonated, implicated, impregnated, inactivated, inaugurated, incapacitated, incarcerated, incinerated, incorporated, inculcated, indicated, indoctrinated, infiltrated, infuriated, initiated, innovated, inoculated, instigated, insulated, integrated, mandated, manipulated, marinated, masturbated, mediated, medicated, migrated, misallocated, misappropriated, miscalculated, mitigated, moderated, motivated, mutated, mutilated, narrated, nauseated, navigated, necessitated, negotiated, nominated, nonregulated, obligated, obliterated, officiated, operated, opinionated, orchestrated, orientated, originated, outdated, overestimated, overregulated, overstated, oxygenated, participated, penetrated, perforated, permeated, perpetrated, perpetuated, pollinated, pontificated, populated, precipitated, predicated, predominated, prefabricated, premeditated, prognosticated, proliferated, promulgated, propagated, radiated, reactivated, reallocated, rebated, recalculated, reciprocated, recreated, redecorated, reformulated, refrigerated, regenerated, regulated, rehabilitated, reincarnated, reintegrated, reinvigorated, reiterated, rejuvenated, relegated, renegotiated, renominated, renovated, repatriated, replicated, repudiated, resonated, resuscitated, retaliated, reverberated, rotated, ruminated, salivated, saturated, segregated, separated, serrated, simulated, sophisticated, speculated, stagnated, stalemated, stimulated, stipulated, subjugated, subordinated, substantiated, suffocated, syncopated, syndicated, tabulated, terminated, titillated, tolerated, truncated, unadulterated, unaffiliated, unallocated, unanticipated, unappreciated, uncompensated, uncomplicated, unconsolidated, uncontaminated, underestimated, understated, undifferentiated, uneducated, unincorporated, uninitiated, unmitigated, unregulated, unsaturated, unsophisticated, unsubstantiated, venerated, ventilated. |
| 3 | -t u d | abstracted, abutted, accented, accepted, abated, abducted, abetted, aborted, accosted, accounted, accredited, acquainted, acquitted, acted, adapted, addicted, adjusted, admitted, adopted, affected, afflicted, affronted, airlifted, alerted, allotted, amounted, annotated, anted, appointed, arrested, assaulted, asserted, assisted, assorted, attempted, attested, attracted, attributed, audited, augmented, averted, awaited, baited, bankrupted, bated, batted, belated, belted, benefited, benefitted, benighted, berated, bested, bigoted, blacklisted, blanketed, blasted, blighted, bloated, blunted, blurted, boasted, boated, bolted, boosted, booted, boycotted, breasted, budgeted, busted, carbureted, carotid, carpeted, carted, catapulted, cemented, chanted, charted, chatted, cheated, chested, circuited, circumvented, cited, closeted, clotted, coasted, coated, coexisted, collected, comforted, commented, committed, commuted, compacted, competed, complemented, completed, complimented, computed, conceited, concerted, concocted, conducted, conflicted, confronted, congested, conjugated, connected, conscripted, consented, consisted, constituted, constricted, constructed, consulted, contacted, contented, contested, contorted, contracted, contradicted, contrasted, contributed, converted, convicted, convoluted, coordinated, copyrighted, corrected, corrupted, costed, counted, counteracted, counterfeited, courted, coveted, crafted, created, credited, cremated, crested, crusted, darted, dated, daunted, debated, dedicated, deducted, defaulted, defeated, defected, deflated, deflected, dehydrated, dejected, deleted, delighted, delisted, demented, demoted, denoted, dented, departed, depicted, depleted, deported, deposited, deregulated, desecrated, deserted, destructed, detected, detested, detracted, devoted, digested, dilated, diluted, directed, disaffected, disappointed, disassociated, disconnected, discontented, interpreted, interrelated, interrupted, intersected, introverted, invented, inverted, invested, invited, jacketed, jetted, jilted, jointed, jolted, jotted, knighted, knitted, knotted, lambasted, lamented, lasted, lifted, lighted, lighthearted, limited, listed, looted, lusted, discounted, discredited, disenchanted, disgusted, disinterested, disinvited, disjointed, dislocated, disoriented, dispirited, disputed, disrespected, disrupted, dissected, dissented, distorted, distracted, distributed, distrusted, diverted, divested, documented, dotted, doubted, drafted, drifted, dusted, edited, effected, ejected, elaborated, elated, elected, electrocuted, elicited, elongated, emitted, enacted, enchanted, encrusted, encrypted, enlisted, entrusted, equated, erected, erupted, escorted, evicted, exacted, exalted, excepted, excerpted, excited, executed, exempted, exerted, exhausted, exhibited, exhorted, existed, exited, expected, expedited, experimented, exploited, exported, extorted, extracted, extradited, extroverted, exulted, faceted, fainted, fainthearted, farsighted, fasted, fated, faulted, feasted, fermented, ferreted, feted, fetid, filleted, fingerprinted, fisted, fitted, flabbergasted, flaunted, flirted, floated, flouted, foisted, fomented, footed, footnoted, forecasted, forested, forfeited, fragmented, frequented, fretted, fronted, frosted, gated, gifted, gloated, glutted, grafted, granted, grated, greeted, grunted, guested, gusted, gutted, halfhearted, hallucinated, halted, handcrafted, harvested, hated, hearted, heated, helmeted, highlighted, hinted, hoisted, hooted, hosted, hunted, ignited, impacted, imparted, implanted, implemented, imported, imprinted, imputed, incited, indebted, indicted, indited, inducted, infected, infested, inflated, inflected, inflicted, ingested, inhabited, inherited, inhibited, injected, inserted, insinuated, insisted, inspected, instituted, instructed, insulted, interacted, intercepted, interconnected, interdicted, interested, interjected, maladjusted, malted, maltreated, manifested, marketed, masted, mated, melted, merited, meted, minted, misdirected, misinterpreted, misquoted, misreported, misrepresented, misstated, mistreated, mistrusted, modulated, molested, mounted, multifaceted, muted, nearsighted, negated, neglected, nested, netted, noted, objected, obstructed, omitted, opted, orbited, oriented, ornamented, ousted, outed, outfitted, outlasted, outvoted, overacted, overexcited, overheated, overpopulated, overrated, overreacted, overrepresented, overweighted, painted, panted, parachuted, parted, pasted, patented, patted, pelleted, pelted, perfected, permitted, persecuted, persisted, perverted, petted, picketed, piloted, pinpointed, pirated, pitted, pivoted, planted, plated, plotted, plummeted, pocketed, pointed, polluted, ported, posited, posted, potted, pouted, predated, predicted, preempted, preexisted, presented, prevented, printed, profited, prohibited, projected, promoted, prompted, prorated, prosecuted, protected, protested, protracted, purported, putted, quieted, quilted, quoted, rafted, ranted, ratcheted, rated, reacted, readjusted, readmitted, reappointed, rearrested, reasserted, rebutted, recanted, recited, recollected, reconnected, reconstituted, reconstructed, recounted, recruited, redacted, redirected, redistributed, redrafted, reelected, reenacted, refitted, reflected, refuted, regimented, regretted, reignited, reinstated, reinstituted, reinterpreted, reinvented, reinvested, reinvited, rejected, related, relented, relocated, remarketed, remitted, rented, repainted, repeated, repented, replanted, reported, represented, reprinted, reputed, requested, rerouted, resented, resisted, resorted, respected, restarted, restated, rested, restricted, resubmitted, resulted, resurrected, retested, retorted, retracted, retreated, retrofitted, reunited, reverted, revisited, revolted, righted, rioted, riveted, roasted, rocketed, roosted, rooted, rotted, rusted, rutted, sainted, salted, saluted, sandblasted, sated, scapegoated, scented, scouted, scripted, sculpted, seated, secreted, sedated, segmented, selected, shafted, shifted, shorted, shortsighted, shouted, shunted, sifted, sighted, silhouetted, sited, skated, skirted, skyrocketed, slanted, slated, slighted, slotted, snorted, solicited, sorted, spirited, sported, spotlighted, spotted, spouted, sprinted, sprouted, spurted, squirted, started, stated, stilted, stunted, subcontracted, subjected, submitted, substituted, subtracted, subverted, suggested, suited, superheated, supplanted, supplemented, supported, surmounted, suspected, swatted, sweated, tainted, talented, targeted, tasted, taunted, tempted, tested, throated, thwarted, ticketed, tightfisted, tilted, tinted, toasted, tormented, toted, touted, transacted, transected, translated, transmitted, transplanted, transported, treated, trotted, trumpeted, trusted, tufted, twisted, unabated, unaccounted, unaccredited, unadjusted, unaffected, unassisted, unaudited, unbolted, uncharted, uncoated, uncollected, uncommitted, uncompleted, unconnected, uncontested, uncontradicted, unconverted, uncoordinated, uncorrected, uncorroborated, uncounted, undated, undaunted, undefeated, undercounted, underrated, underreported, underrepresented, undetected, undiluted, undisputed, undistributed, undocumented, undoubted, unedited, unelected, unexpected, unexploited, unindicted, uninfected, uninhabited, uninhibited, uninterested, uninterrupted, uninvited, United, unlimited, unlisted, unmolested, unobstructed, unpainted, unprecedented, unprotected, unrated, unreconstructed, unrelated, unreported, unrepresented, unrequited, unrestricted, unscripted, unseated, unsolicited, unstated, unsuited, unsupported, unsuspected, untainted, untested, untreated, unwanted, unwarranted, updated, uplifted, uprooted, vacated, vaccinated, vacillated, validated, vatted, vaulted, vaunted, vented, vested, vetted, vindicated, violated, visited, voted, wafted, waited, wanted, warranted, wasted, weighted, whetted, whited, wholehearted, wilted, witted, worsted, wrested. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-f-i-n-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: infatuate. | |
-2 letters: attained, unfitted. | |
-3 letters: antifat, attuned, audient, defiant, fainted, nutated, tainted, taunted. | |
-4 letters: adnate, attain, attend, attune, auntie, dautie, detain, dunite, fadein, fatted, fatten, faunae, fitted, nutate, nutted, taenia, tauted, tauten, tenuti, tinted, tufted, united, untied. | |
-5 letters: adieu, antae, anted, audit, daunt, defat, entia, faena, faint, fated, fauna, feint, fetid, fiend, fined, fundi, indue. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-f-i-n-t-t-u" | |
+4 letters: fundamentalist. | |
+5 letters: fundamentalists. | |
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