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devouted

devouted is the obsolete form of devoted.

Meaning of devoted

Adjective

devoted (comparative more devoted, superlative most devoted)

  1. Vowed; dedicated; consecrated.
    • He describes the operation thus: "The heavy ram employed to impart the finishing strokes, hoisted up with double purchase and snail's pace to the summit of the Piling Engine, and then falling down like a thunderbolt on the head of the devoted timber, driving it perhaps a single half inch in to the...1952 July, W. R. Watson, “Sankey Viaduct and Embankment”, in Railway Magazine, page 487
  2. Strongly emotionally attached; very fond of someone or something.
    • Bob and Sara are devoted to their children.
    Synonyms:
    devout
  3. Zealous; characterized by devotion.
  4. (obsolete) Cursed; doomed.
    • The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being that had sold himself to destruction […]1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford, published 2010, page 31

Forms of devouted

comparativemore devouted
superlativemost devouted

Questions about devouted

What is devouted the obsolete form of?
Devouted is the obsolete form of devoted.

Words near devouted in the dictionary

  1. devourings
  2. devourment
  3. devourments
  4. devours
  5. devout
  6. devouted
  7. devouter
  8. devoutest
  9. devoutful
  10. devoutless
  11. devoutly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: devouted (page history and authors); devoted (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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