adj
Meaning 1
Infatuated, foolishly attracted to someone.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
infatuate
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/ɪnˈfætju(w)ət/
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/ɪnˈfætjuˌ(w)eɪt/
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adj
Meaning 2
Foolish, lacking good judgement.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Examples
- 1623, Joseph Hall, Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testaments (original title Contemplations vpon the Historie of the Old Testament), Edinburgh: Ja. Robertson et al., 1796, Volume 2, Book 18, Contemplation 4, p. 167, There was never wicked man that was not infatuate, and in nothing more than in those things wherein he hoped most to transcend the reach of others.
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noun
Meaning 3
Infatuated person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Examples
- 1771, Elizabeth Griffith, The History of Lady Barton, London: T. Davies & T. Cadell, Volume I, Letter 26, p. 183, [...] she has a number of relations here, brothers and cousins, by the dozen; but they are all priests, and I am apprehensive that some of these infatuates may persuade her to quit me, and lock her up in a convent [...]
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verb
Meaning 4
To inspire with unreasoning love, attachment or enthusiasm.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 5
To make foolish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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verb
Meaning 6
arouse unreasoning love or passion in and cause to behave in an irrational way
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- His new car has infatuated him
- love has infatuated her
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke
History
Etymology
First attested in 1477, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English infatuate (“foolish”, adjective), from Latin infatuātus, perfect passive participle of infatuō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix).
First attested in 1533; from Middle English infatuate and/or borrowed from Latin infatuātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 2 for more.
Across languages
Translations
15 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: замайвам (zamajvam) — to inspire with unreasoning love or attachment
- Catalan: infatuar — to inspire with unreasoning love or attachment
- Dutch: verdwazen — to inspire with unreasoning love or attachment
- Dutch: verblinden — to inspire with unreasoning love or attachment
- Finnish: hullaannuttaa — to inspire with unreasoning love or attachment
- Finnish: ihastuttaa — to inspire with unreasoning love or attachment
- German: betören — to inspire with unreasoning love or attachment
- Māori: whātītipa — to inspire with unreasoning love or attachment
- Māori: whakatītipa — to inspire with unreasoning love or attachment
- Māori: whakawairangi — to inspire with unreasoning love or attachment
- Russian: увле́чь (uvléčʹ) — to inspire with unreasoning love or attachment
- Russian: обольстить (obolʹstitʹ) — to inspire with unreasoning love or attachment
- Spanish: infatuar — to inspire with unreasoning love or attachment
- Thai: หลง (lǒng) — to inspire with unreasoning love or attachment
- Thai: ลุ่มหลง (lûm-lǒng) — to inspire with unreasoning love or attachment