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Word entry · 8 letters

besotted

Best crossword clue

"Completely infatuated"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /bɪˈsɒtɪd/Part of speech adjectiveSorted bdeeosttStarts with BEnds with D1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Strongly infatuated, foolishly fond, or very intoxicated.

Word origin

From besot + -ed.

Used in a sentence

  • Paris, you ſpeake / Like one be-ſotted on your ſweet delights;
  • The few are philosophers besotted with admiration for the sound of their own lecturing voices, visionaries who waste their lives on fantastic impossibilities, or quacks whose ambition soars no higher than our corns.
  • ‘They're educating me, man,’ he said about these besotted women, with whom he discussed international politics, South American literature, dance, and the ability of alcohol to induce mystic states.

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