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

238 3.4

To attract and hold someone's strong interest or attention

is specifically short lived and irrational not merely sustained interest

E

to enthrall

vsto infatuate

20 6.8

To hold someone's full attention by being very interesting

is centered on short intense passion rather than calm absorption

E

to enchant

vsto infatuate

17 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 enrapture

vsto infatuate

• Literature

6 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

S

to sweep off someone's feet

vsto infatuate

• Informal

4.5

Make someone feel very impressed and strongly attracted

is briefer and more likely to cause irrational foolish actions

Antonyms

D

to dissipate

48 6.8

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

D

to disillusion

18 6.4

To make someone realize that something they believed is not true

How Attractive

to obsess

304 5.5

to infatuate

13 7.7

to captivate

19 4.2

to attract

991 1.9

to interest

206 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology