swoony
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8.0
- adjective
- /ˈswuːni/
- Informal
:
soñador
- Her swoony expressions whenever he entered the room were undeniable, showing just how enchanted she was.
But if you aren't used to ever being helped, you may often find yourself becoming very fawny and even swoony in your gratitude.
- But if you aren't used to ever being helped, you may often find yourself becoming very fawny and even swoony in your gratitude.
Examples
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But if you aren't used to ever being helped, you may often find yourself becoming very fawny and even swoony in your gratitude.
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But we're often as swoony as around smart people as we are when we're around really attractive people or really rich ones.
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Oh, stop being so swoony!
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Makes me all swoony.
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Because, like every other woman on the planet, I am harboring a dozen swoony unrequited crushes that are deep in the soft parts of what's left of my heart.
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After watching the romantic movie, I felt quite swoony and dreamy, lost in thoughts of love.
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Listening to his sweet serenade made me feel swoony and light-headed, as if I were floating on air.
Synonyms
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2.7
Feeling weak and about to lose consciousness
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5.7
Feeling dizzy and unsteady, as if you might faint
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3.4
Feels soft, gentle and romantic, like a dream
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5.8
Very strongly attracted to someone or something
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4.9
Feeling nervous and excited with a quick, shaky feeling in the body
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7.3
Looking dreamy and lost in thought, not paying attention
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7.7
Feeling dizzy after spinning or excitement
Feeling very weak and about to faint
Being dreamy and often lost in romantic thoughts
Antonyms
How Smitten
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Swoony comes from the verb swoon ('to faint' or 'be overwhelmed') plus the ending -y ('full of'). So swoony describes feeling dreamy or light-headed from strong emotion or romance, like being 'swept off your feet'.