besotted

Adjective

besotted (comparative more besotted, superlative most besotted)

1. Infatuated.
   • Paris, you ſpeake / Like one be-ſotted on your ſweet delights;c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
   • 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...1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co....

   Synonyms:

   smitten, taken, besotten, bitten, charmed, enamored, head over heels, in love, infatuated, limerent

2. Intellectually or morally blinded.
3. (archaic) Intoxicated, drunk.
   • 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...1890, William Booth, chapter 6, in In Darkest England and the Way Out

   Synonyms:

   Adrian Quist, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, bedrunken, befuddled, beliquored