Definition of "infatuate" in English

verb

1. (transitive) To inspire with unreasoning love, attachment or enthusiasm.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To make foolish.

adjective

1. (obsolete) Infatuated, foolishly attracted to someone.

2. (obsolete) Foolish, lacking good judgement.

   • 1623, Joseph Hall, Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testaments (original title Contemplations vpon the Historie of the Old Testament), Edinburgh: Ja. Robertson et al., 1796, Volume 2, Book 18, Contemplation 4, p. 167, There was never wicked man that was not infatuate, and in nothing more than in those things wherein he hoped most to transcend the reach of others.

noun

1. (obsolete) Infatuated person.

   • 1771, Elizabeth Griffith, The History of Lady Barton, London: T. Davies & T. Cadell, Volume I, Letter 26, p. 183, […] she has a number of relations here, brothers and cousins, by the dozen; but they are all priests, and I am apprehensive that some of these infatuates may persuade her to quit me, and lock her up in a convent […]