Definition of "infatuated"
infatuated
adjective
comparative more infatuated, superlative most infatuated
Foolishly or unreasoningly fond of, attracted to or in love with (someone).
Quotations
“Gracious goodness,” the cry was, “how infatuated the mother is about that pert and headstrong boy who gives himself the airs of a lord on his blood-horse, and for whom our society is not good enough, and who would marry an odious painted actress off a booth, where very likely he wants to rant himself. …"
1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 15, in The History of Pendennis. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850
Excessively fond of or enthusiastic about (something).
Quotations
Before I leave Switzerland I cannot but observe, that the Notion of Witchcraft reigns very much in this Country. […] The People are so universally infatuated with the Notion, that if a Cow falls sick, it is Ten to One but an Old Woman is clapt up in Prison for it […]
1703, Joseph Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, London: J. Tonson, pages 390–391
(obsolete) Foolish, stupid, lacking good judgment (often as a result of some external influence).
Quotations
It is possible, that had they not been so infatuated, as to imagine they could retrieve in Germany all that they had lost in America, the British court in the beginning of the year 1759 might have listened to terms of accommodation.
1763, Oliver Goldsmith, The Martial Review: or, A General History of the Late Wars, London: J. Newbery, page 64
So deep did they go; and so ancient, and corroded, and weedy the aspect of the lowermost puncheons, that you almost looked next for some mouldy corner-stone cask containing coins of Captain Noah, with copies of the posted placards, vainly warning the infatuated old world from the flood.
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Chapter 110”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley