besotted
adjective

- strongly infatuated or obsessed

- If you are besotted with someone or something, you like them so much that you seem foolish or silly

- so attracted by someone or something that you are always thinking about them

Collins Dictionary

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WORD ORIGIN

The verb “besot” stems from the 1570s and means “affect with a foolish manifestation”. The adjective, meaning “stupid, infatuated”, is from the same time.

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BESOTTED WITH MARILYN

“Colin Farrell’s first big crush was on Marilyn Monroe. At 8 or 9, totally besotted with the dead goddess, he’d leave some of his precious Smarties under his pillow along with a note inviting her to come down from Heaven to share them with him.”

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SYNONYMS

- excessively attracted to, in love with, or fond of someone or something

addicted, all-consumed, beguiled, BESOTTED, bewitched, bowled over, carried away, consumed with desire for, crazy about, daft about, dazzled, doting on, dotty about, enamoured, enchanted, enchanted by, enrapt, enraptured, enthralled, fanatical about, far gone on, fixated on, gaga over, gone on, goo-goo, have a crush on, head over heels, hooked on, hopelessly in love, hopelessly in love with, hot for, hung up on, infatuated with, love-struck by, lovelorn, mad about, nuts about, potty about, smitten with, sold on, spellbound, swept off one’s feet by, twitterpated by, under the spell of, wild about

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