Besotted

//bɪˈsɒtɪd// adj, verb

adj, verb ·Common ·Middle school level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of besot form-of, participle, past
Adjective
  1. 1
    Infatuated.

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

  2. 2
    Intellectually or morally blinded.
  3. 3
    Intoxicated, drunk. archaic

    "There are thousands who were begotten when both parents were besotted with drink, whose mothers saturated themselves with alcohol every day of their pregnancy, who may be said to have sucked in a taste for strong drink with their mothers' milk, and who were surrounded from childhood with opportunities and incitements to drink."

Adjective
  1. 1
    very drunk wordnet

Synonyms

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blind drunkbesottensprunga sheet in the winda sheet in the wind's eyeaddled

Antonyms

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sober

Example

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"He is completely besotted with her."

Etymology

From besot + -ed.

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