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What is the origin of infatuated?
When we speak of someone being infatuated it very often is in relationship to that person having seemingly taken leave of his or her senses, especially in a romantic context (“he was so infatuated that he could not remember what day of the week it was”). This is fitting, as the word shares an origin with the word fatuous, which means complacently or inanely foolish. Both words come from the Latin fatuus (“foolish”), although fatuous is not often used in the romantic contexts in which we find infatuate. When used with a preposition infatuated is typically followed by with.
Examples of infatuate in a Sentence
Gary Phillips, Hartford Courant, 5 Mar. 2025
Pete becomes infatuated with the fact that Evie is infatuated with Danny.
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 24 Feb. 2025
Egger’s version of Nosferatu sees Bill Skarsgård transform into the terrifying vampire, who is infatuated with a haunted young woman (played by Lily Rose-Depp).
—Kirsten Chuba, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Dec. 2024
Kristen Stewart plays a small-town gym owner who becomes infatuated with a body builder played by Katy O’Brian.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 5 Feb. 2025
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“Infatuate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/infatuate. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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