Infatuated
adjective
Extremely or foolishly loving or admiring someone or something.
She was infatuated with her English teacher.
Often appears as...
- infatuated with
- infatuated by
adjective
Extremely or foolishly loving or admiring someone or something.
She was infatuated with her English teacher.
Often appears as...
- infatuated with
- infatuated by
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Pro Tip 1/3Intensity Emphasized
Use 'infatuated' to emphasize a passionate, intense attraction, often perceived as excessive or temporary.
He was infatuated with the idea of becoming an astronaut.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotionally Charged
'Infatuated' often implies an emotional state that lacks reason or clear thinking.
Alex became infatuated with the celebrity, neglecting his daily responsibilities.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Long-lasting
Infatuation usually suggests a short-lived, not deep, fervor that might fade away quickly.
Their infatuated whispers ended as summer faded.
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The surprising science...
romantically infatuated with someone else and what I have sex for the third person the other way in which our genes can sometimes lead us astray is in social status we are very acutely aware of our social status and always seek you know to further and increase it now in the animal world is only one way to increase
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Nancy Etcoff: Happiness...
See the problem is that, as humans, these three can separate. So a person can be in a long term attachment, become romantically infatuated with someone else, and want to have sex with a third person. The other way in which our genes can sometimes lead us astray is in social status.
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Balloon Infatuation PIPE...
twenty-seven-year-old Dave is infatuated with balloons the best way to protect it is underneath the shirt and you feel the balloon right there with you feel so cool you feel so warm and you feel so in
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Making the impossible...
I'm infatuated with this concept of impossible so infatuated that I have made it my life's mission to make things not impossible and the way that I go about
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The surprising science...
romantically infatuated with someone else and what I have sex for the third person the other way in which our genes can sometimes lead us astray is in social status we are very acutely aware of our social status and always seek you know to further and increase it now in the animal world is only one way to increase
Video examples
Nancy Etcoff: Happiness...
See the problem is that, as humans, these three can separate. So a person can be in a long term attachment, become romantically infatuated with someone else, and want to have sex with a third person. The other way in which our genes can sometimes lead us astray is in social status.
Video examples
Balloon Infatuation PIPE...
twenty-seven-year-old Dave is infatuated with balloons the best way to protect it is underneath the shirt and you feel the balloon right there with you feel so cool you feel so warm and you feel so in
Video examples
Making the impossible...
I'm infatuated with this concept of impossible so infatuated that I have made it my life's mission to make things not impossible and the way that I go about
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Karen Civil
American Businesswoman
When I was young, I originally wanted to be a radio on-air personality. Once I realized I may not be fit for that - I was infatuated with hip-hop - that I still wanted to be a part and give back the community, so I decided to carve my own path and make my own lane.
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R. Kelly
American Musician
I have always been infatuated with country music. Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories. I said that when I establish myself as an artist that can do pretty much anything I want to do in music, I'm going to make a country album.
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Isaac of Nineveh
Saint
Do not test out your mind on the grounds that you are examining what seductive and impure thoughts look like, imagining that, as you do this, you will not be overcome by them. Even the wise have in this way been thrown into confusion and become infatuated.
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Frank Sinatra Jr.
American Singer
I began to become very infatuated at the creation of my own music rather than someone else's and my piano teacher used to get really cross with me because of the fact that I wasn't studying my lessons, I was writing things of my own.
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Mike Binder
American Director
From very early on, I had always wanted to be a stand-up comedian. It was my passion; it was my goal. It was a world I was simply infatuated with. So, as soon as I could, I moved out to L.A. chasing after my dream.
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Ellie Goulding
English Musician
Breakups just hit you harder when you're younger. When I was a teenager, it felt like the most depressing thing in the world if a boy I was infatuated with didn't like me back!
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Yo Gotti
American Musician
I would watch all of the videos that came on on BET and MTV. I was infatuated with the hip-hop culture.
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Emil Cioran
Romanian Philosopher
What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?
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Helen Fisher
American Scientist
If we remained perpetually infatuated, we couldn't eat, sleep or work.
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Tom Robbins
American Author
I'm not infatuated with frivolousness. We're just good friends.
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Karen Civil
American Businesswoman
When I was young, I originally wanted to be a radio on-air personality. Once I realized I may not be fit for that - I was infatuated with hip-hop - that I still wanted to be a part and give back the community, so I decided to carve my own path and make my own lane.
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R. Kelly
American Musician
I have always been infatuated with country music. Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories. I said that when I establish myself as an artist that can do pretty much anything I want to do in music, I'm going to make a country album.
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Isaac of Nineveh
Saint
Do not test out your mind on the grounds that you are examining what seductive and impure thoughts look like, imagining that, as you do this, you will not be overcome by them. Even the wise have in this way been thrown into confusion and become infatuated.
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Frank Sinatra Jr.
American Singer
I began to become very infatuated at the creation of my own music rather than someone else's and my piano teacher used to get really cross with me because of the fact that I wasn't studying my lessons, I was writing things of my own.
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Mike Binder
American Director
From very early on, I had always wanted to be a stand-up comedian. It was my passion; it was my goal. It was a world I was simply infatuated with. So, as soon as I could, I moved out to L.A. chasing after my dream.
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Ellie Goulding
English Musician
Breakups just hit you harder when you're younger. When I was a teenager, it felt like the most depressing thing in the world if a boy I was infatuated with didn't like me back!
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Yo Gotti
American Musician
I would watch all of the videos that came on on BET and MTV. I was infatuated with the hip-hop culture.
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Emil Cioran
Romanian Philosopher
What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?
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Helen Fisher
American Scientist
If we remained perpetually infatuated, we couldn't eat, sleep or work.
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Tom Robbins
American Author
I'm not infatuated with frivolousness. We're just good friends.
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