besotted

adjective

be·sot·ted | \ bi-ˈsä-təd

, bē-\

Definition of besotted

1 : blindly or utterly infatuated besotted lovers They have a mad affair. He is besotted. But she is an expensive partner, and he needs money to keep her in style.— Newgate Callendar The husband … seems besotted with his wife and horribly jealous of the bird she's protecting.— Edmund White

2 : intoxicated or stupefied especially with drink … longed only to get out of the house for a lively evening with his old cronies, who were boorish, bumbling and besotted every last one of them.— Dennis Drabelle We issued into an empty street through a half-open door, staggering like besotted revellers.— Joseph Conrad

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Other Words from besotted

besottedly adverb

She had gone back with him to his flat that first night blindly and besottedly in love with him. — Anne Mulcock

besottedness noun

I was besotted with the idea and the reality of Venice, and that besottedness has never quite left me … — Erica Jong

Synonyms & Antonyms for besotted

Synonyms

blasted [slang], blind, blitzed [slang], blotto [slang], bombed, boozy, canned [slang], cockeyed, crocked, drunk, drunken, fried, gassed, hammered [slang], high, impaired, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, juiced [slang], lit, lit up, loaded [slang], looped, oiled [slang], pickled, pie-eyed, plastered, potted [slang], ripped [slang], sloshed [slang], smashed [slang], sottish, soused, sozzled, squiffed (or squiffy), stewed, stiff, stinking [slang], stoned, tanked [slang], tiddly [chiefly British], tight, tipsy, wasted [slang], wet, wiped out [slang]

Antonyms

sober, straight

Examples of besotted in a Sentence

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Will is pursued by a besotted friend who plays provocatively with binary conceptions of gender. — The Economist, "Love in the time of the Black Death," 29 Aug. 2019 Will is pursued by a besotted friend who plays provocatively with binary conceptions of gender. — The Economist, "Love in the time of the Black Death," 31 Aug. 2019 Twitter users became besotted with its imagery, and seemingly within three to five minutes, sent their feral hog jokes running across timelines everywhere. — Emma Grey Ellis, WIRED, "How '30-50 Feral Hogs' Became the New 'Thoughts and Prayers'," 6 Aug. 2019 But the area has seen a flurry of sales in the last couple of years, as longtime residents have died or aged out of the neighborhood and besotted buyers like Ari Heckman have leapt at the opportunity to get a foothold there. — Candace Taylor, WSJ, "The L.A. Neighborhood Where Homes Seldom Come on the Market," 16 May 2019 And unsurprisingly, even Harry's wife still looks totally besotted with him. — Amy Mackelden, Harper's BAZAAR, "This Woman Meeting Prince Harry on the Royal Tour Is All of Us," 18 Oct. 2018 Behold the shirtdress, the new uniform of summer 2018, here worn magnificently on Emma Watson, the Duchess of Sussex, and beautifully besotted birthday girl Priyanka Chopra. — Edward Barsamian, Vogue, "10 Best Dressed: Week of July 23, 2018," 23 July 2018 When news of their engagement broke, the besotted couple was enjoying a break in the Bahamas. — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, "Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin Ease Into a Comfort Zone With Couple Style," 11 July 2018 But Stewart Evan Smith is callow, almost comic, as Chevalier Danceny, Cécile’s besotted music teacher. — Jeffrey Gantz, BostonGlobe.com, "Sex as a weapon in Nora’s all-male ‘Liaisons’," 5 June 2018

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besotted

adjective

English Language Learners Definition of besotted

: loving someone or something so much that you cannot think clearly

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