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Meaning of 'infatuate' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Infatuate [ a.]
- Infatuated.
2 . Infatuate [ v. t.]
- To make foolish; to affect with folly; to weaken the intellectual powers of, or to deprive of sound judgment.
- To inspire with a foolish and extravagant passion; as, to be infatuated with gaming.

Meaning of 'infatuate' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . infatuate [ v]
Meaning (1):
- arouse unreasoning love or passion in and cause to behave in an irrational way
Example in sentence:
  • His new car has infatuated him;
  • love has infatuated her

Nearby Words:

infabricated infallibilist infallibility infallible infallibleness infallibly infame infamies infamize infamized

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