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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
Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 28 May 2025
Although Costello and McNeill were able to escape Fred’s grip, McFall was infatuated with him and decided to stay.
—Alex Gurley, People.com, 16 May 2025
Gunna and Bridges are infatuated with a woman in this song.
—Jason Jones, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
Some of the rhetoric from Halle begs the question: is the AfD infatuated with Trump?
—Sebastian Shukla, CNN, 1 Feb. 2025
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“Infatuate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/infatuate. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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