infatuated

Etymology

From infatuate + -ed.

verb

1. simple past and past participle of infatuate

adj

1. Foolishly or unreasoningly fond of, attracted to or in love with (someone).
   1771, Elizabeth Griffith, The History of Lady Barton, London: T. Davies & T. Cadell, Volume 3, Letter 60, p. 40, […] I did not know her then, or I could never have been so infatuated as I was, to a creature so every way her inferior […]
   I never saw such an infatuated man. The more she talks and the odder the things she says, the more he’s delighted evidently. 1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 13, in Anne of Green Gables, London: L.C. Page & Co, page 115
   Why, the poor woman was infatuated with him. He could have turned her round his little finger. She'd have given him anything he wanted. 1932, Dorothy L. Sayers, chapter 10, in Have His Carcase, New York: Avon, page 95
2. Excessively fond of or enthusiastic about (something).
   Before I leave Switzerland I cannot but observe, that the Notion of Witchcraft reigns very much in this Country. […] The People are so universally infatuated with the Notion, that if a Cow falls sick, it is Ten to One but an Old Woman is clapt up in Prison for it […] 1703, Joseph Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, London: J. Tonson, pages 390–391
   She was one of those people who are infatuated with patent medicines and all new-fangled methods of producing health or mending it. 1876, Mark Twain, chapter 12, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Connecticut: The American Publishing Company, page 108
3. (obsolete) Foolish, stupid, lacking good judgement (often as a result of some external influence).
   […] that people must needs be madd or strangely infatuated, that build the chief hope of thir common happiness or safetie on a single person […] 1660, John Milton, The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth, London, page 32
   It is possible, that had they not been so infatuated, as to imagine they could retrieve in Germany all that they had lost in America, the British court in the beginning of the year 1759 might have listened to terms of accommodation. 1763, Oliver Goldsmith, The Martial Review: or, A General History of the Late Wars, London: J. Newbery, page 64