🤪 Slightly crazy 🔵 With dots 😍 Very fond

dotty

1 8.2

Extremely fond of someone or something

adjective
/ˈdɑːti/

: locamente enamorado

My grandparents are still dotty about each other after fifty years of marriage.

Examples

Ever since he got that new game, he's been completely dotty over it.
She's absolutely dotty about classic movies and never misses a film festival.
She is completely dotty about her new puppy.
Why is he so dotty over that band?
Since he started dating her, he's been completely dotty about her.
After adopting the puppy, she became dotty with excitement and affection.
His friends think he is dotty for collecting rare comic books and action figures.

Synonyms

obsessed

vsdotty

459 4.8

Very strongly interested in someone or something and thinking about them all the time

focuses on steady fixation rather than light fondness or play

enamored

vsdotty

26 6.8

Very much in love with a person, place, or thing

leans toward strong attraction but also includes nonobsessive fondness

wild

vsdotty

20 4.4

Very enthusiastic about someone or something

is usually used for high energy interest not necessarily obsession

gaga

vsdotty

Informal

16 8.2

Very excited and attracted to someone or something

is steadier fondness and can be less wildly excited

doting

vsdotty

12 6.8

Showing very strong love and attention in a way that seems foolish

is more about internal fondness rather than outward attentive behaviour

besotted

vsdotty

6 7.2

Very much in love with someone or something and often thinking only about them

expresses fondness that can be less focused on romance

Antonyms

indifferent

50 4.4

Not interested or showing no strong feeling about something

dispassionate

Formal

14 6.7

Not letting strong feelings affect your judgment

Idioms

a bit dotty

1 8.5

A little strange in a kind, harmless way

Compounds

dotty sense of humor

8.6

A playful, slightly odd way of making jokes that surprises people

How Fond

obsessed

459 4.8

dotty

1 8.2

infatuated

23 6.1

keen

109 2.3

fond

269 1.0

Surface Forms

dotty positive

dottier comparative

dottiest superlative

Morphology

dotty = dot (opaque) = dot + ty

The meaning of being infatuated or obsessed is not directly derivable from 'dot'.

Etymology

Dotty comes from the old verb dote, which meant 'to show too much love'. So if someone is dotty about something, they are very fond of it or a little obsessed.