besotted

UK/bɪˈsɒtɪd/US/bɪˈsɑtɪd/

adjectiveC2Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,102 of 15,258leans spoken

Besotted means so much in love that judgement is lost. Besotted with her.

It is affectionate about parents and grandchildren and faintly worrying about anybody else. The sot in besotted is the old word for a drunkard, which is exactly the comparison.

Definitions of besotted

1adjectivebesottedSo much in love that judgement is lost.C2
“He was besotted with the dog from the first afternoon.”

besotted is a quality.

Where it comes from

From besot + -ed.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

besotted in the wild

Asyik (literally "beloved"/"besotted") is a classical royal court dance popular in Patani and Kelantan.
Asyik
In the episode, Brian and Stewie travel to India after the former becomes besotted with a tech support worker.
Road to India (Family Guy)
In it a Devon squire marries an attractive gypsy girl with whom he has a son; he in turn becomes besotted with a gypsy woman on the moors.
Magic Lantern (novel)
Matsys depicts this theme by showing an older man besotted by a younger, beautiful woman.
Ill-Matched Lovers (Matsys)
The play used the innovation of casting Barry as the romantic object of Cyrus' love, while Bracegirdle is besotted with him and driven to distraction by his rejection.
Cyrus the Great (play)

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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