to infatuate

Examples

• All

• The point is that you are infatuated with Jane.

  The First Time (2012)

• It's easier for him to become so infatuated that he will ignore all these things.

  Stephan Speaks

• Or are you becoming infatuated with that student you spend so much time with?

  Irrational Man (2015)

• And told you he was infatuated with you?

  The Lady from Shanghai (1947)

• - Is Tony infatuated with that woman?

  The Paradine Case (1947)

• A couple of years ago, I grew infatuated with the stock market.

  Fiction book (1994)

• Is it not a fact that he was infatuated with you?

  Fiction book (1998)

• When Roman became infatuated with me, it became a triangle.

  Fiction book (1996)

• Today he's infatuated with you.

  The Devil's Double (2011)

• You're infatuated with him, aren't you?

  Underworld (2003)

Synonyms

F

to fascinate

vsto infatuate

51 3.4

To attract and hold someone's strong interest or attention

is specifically short lived and irrational not merely sustained interest

S

to sweep off someone's feet

vsto infatuate

• Informal

31 4.5

Make someone feel very impressed and strongly attracted

is briefer and more likely to cause irrational foolish actions

E

to enchant

vsto infatuate

25 4.8

To make someone feel very pleased and amazed as if by magic

is more about brief irrational passion rather than gentle magical charm

E

to enthrall

vsto infatuate

5 6.8

To hold someone's full attention by being very interesting

is centered on short intense passion rather than calm absorption

E

to enrapture

vsto infatuate

• Literature

1 7.8

To make someone feel very happy and amazed

is about brief irrational passion rather than steady joyful delight

E

to enamor

vsto infatuate

• US

1 7.0

To make someone feel love and admiration for a person or thing

is shorter and more irrational often making people act foolishly

Antonyms

D

to dissipate

59 6.8

To make something spread out and disappear, for example fog or tension

D

to disillusion

4 6.4

To make someone realize that something they believed is not true

How Attractive

to obsess

93 5.5

to infatuate

1 7.7

to captivate

28 4.2

to attract

936 1.9

to interest

189 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology