Besotted

Quick meaning: Besotted is a verb meaning simple past and past participle of besot.

Meaning

simple past and past participle of besot.

More Meanings

1. Infatuated.
2. Intellectually or morally blinded.
3. (archaic) Intoxicated, drunk.

Example Sentences

Paris, you ſpeake / Like one be-ſotted on your ſweet delights;

‘They're educating me, man,’ he said about these besotted women, with whom he discussed international politics, South American literature, dance, and the ability of alcohol to induce mystic states.

The few are philosophers besotted with admiration for the sound of their own lecturing voices, visionaries who waste their lives on fantastic impossibilities, or quacks whose ambition soars no higher than our corns.

Much did I wonder that so good a knight as Brian de Bois-Guilbert seemed so fondly besotted on the charms of this female, whom I received into this house merely to place a bar betwixt their growing intimacy, which else might have been cemented at the expense of the fall of our valiant and religious brother.

Word Forms

• besotten

Synonyms for besotted

Depending on context, synonyms include smitten, taken, besotten, bitten, charmed, enamored.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tiddley, pixilated, tight, stiff, loaded, crocked.

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