besotted en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /bɪˈsɑtɪd/ (General-American)
- /bɪˈsɒtɪd/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
Etymology tree English besot Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English besotted From besot + -ed.
Meanings
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Infatuated.
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.
1859 November 26 – 1860 August 25, [William] Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White. […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], published 1860, →OCLC:Paris, you ſpeake / Like one be-ſotted on your ſweet delights;
c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], column 2:‘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.
1990, Hanif Kureishi, chapter 17, in The Buddha of Suburbia, London; Boston: Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 248:Much did I wonder that so good a knight as Brian de Bois-Guilbert seemed so fondly besotted on the charms of this female, whom I received into this house merely to place a bar betwixt their growing intimacy, which else might have been cemented at the expense of the fall of our valiant and religious brother.
1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
- Intellectually or morally blinded.
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(archaic) Intoxicated, drunk.
There are thousands who were begotten when both parents were besotted with drink, whose mothers saturated themselves with alcohol every day of their pregnancy, who may be said to have sucked in a taste for strong drink with their mothers' milk, and who were surrounded from childhood with opportunities and incitements to drink.
1890, William Booth, chapter 6, in In Darkest England and the Way Out:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more besotted | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most besotted | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| besotten | alternative | lexicographic |
Deriveds
unbesotted · besottedness · besottedly
Synonyms
feeling no pain · a sheet in the wind · mortal · zoned · jaked · glorious · bosky · fluthered · off one's box · sauced up · fuckered up · kisky · smashed · soused · on the ran tan · nappy · larruped · stoated · spanceled · soaken · hosed · muddled · blootered · loved-up · sweet on · wazzed · fap · hooched up · potshot · slizzard · dead drunk · bungfu · paralytic · liquored up · raddled · schnockered · maggot · wet · gesuip · medicated · fuzzy-headed · bombed · hog-whimpering · three sheets in the wind · clobbered · have drink taken · sloshed · fresh · tanked · ebriated · zonked · souped-up · skunked · shitty · flushed · inter pocula · bibacious · mashed · have the sun in one's eyes · toasted · Adrian Quist · jarred · twisted · squiffed · canned · plowed · blitzed · kaylied · stewed · parlatic · overtaken · cut · twitterpated · budgy · sloppy drunk · half seas over · disguised · bottled · inebrious · mad with it · out of one's head · hooted · sewed up · munted · out of one's box · tired and emotional · bevvied · Oliver · a sheet in the wind's eye · pie-eyed · half polluted · legless · crapulous · fried · loose · zooted · temulentive · besotten · shickered · sprung · lubed · ripe · inebriate · elephant's trunk · spongy · whittled · splashed · crocked · kettled · bitten · all mops and brooms · quisby · bedrunken · wrecked · rolling · snuffy · out of it · sozzled · besotted · enamored · juiced up · taken · off one's head · sotted · lashed · in the drink · insober · muggy · out of sight · tipsy · lushed · oiled up · bingoed · lathered · langered · how came you so · in one's cups · wellied · sozzly · in the bag · shicker · pounded · fou · plastered · tanked up · besotted · mullered · pixilated · full · high as a Georgia pine · elevated · worse for liquor · flooey · schloshed · bladdered · high · newted · boozy · slammed · polluted · tight · blottoed · hazed · cup-shot · toping · off one's tits · strut · fuzzy-minded · nimptopsical · primed · drunk · sprung · zotzed · bollocksed · messed up · drunk as a piper · four sheets in the wind · blewed · frosted · ripped · lash · worse for wear · drunked up · gished · cup-shotten · snookered · tight as a tick · binned · fluted · inebriated · lamped · befuddled · ossified · cunted · mortalled · muzzy · looped · groggy · gattered · smitten · shedded · well-oiled · wastey · spiffed · tuned · slarmied · love-struck · floored · scuttered · stotious · oiled · sodden · liquory · overrefreshed · blind · shellacked · high as a kite · gee-eyed · spannered · tippled · snozzled · snockered · screwed · langers · fuddled · corned · out of one's face · potted · MWI · destroyed · blocked · limerent · Brahms and Liszt · throwed · sottish · Mozart and Liszt · wobbly · honkers · taken · flustered · ginned · lubricated · trashed · Brahms · half lit · besotten · smitten · impaired · withered · faced · bungalowed · bibulous · ratfaced · charmed · lovesick · stinko · zorched · ploughed · blind drunk · aled up · obliviated · maggoted · obfuscated · insobrietous · lubed up · gassed · sauced · fuckfaced · monged · top-heavy with drink · loaded · hammered · blasted · steamboats · overcome · drunken · lit · rubbered · adrip · stoned · burlin' · in love · blue · infatuated · head over heels · three sheets to the wind · groggified · in one's altitudes · elephant's · hoovered · fershnickered · beliquored · top-heavy · loopy · pickled · twatfaced · stinking · soshed · wazzocked · flush · swacked · arseholed · scammered · tilted · puggled · temulent · ebriose · juiced · razzled · half cut · cocked · Oliver Twist · cockeyed · in liquor · mabok · woozy · stonkered · maudlin
Translations (21)
de bezwitschert (intoxicated) · es intoxicado (intoxicated) · de besoffen (intoxicated) · de vernebelt (intellectually or morally blinded) · de geblendet (intellectually or morally blinded) · de betrunken (intoxicated) · de vernarrt (infatuated) · de angeheitert (intoxicated) · de schwärmerisch (infatuated) · de beschwipst (intoxicated) · de entzückt (infatuated) · es borracho (intoxicated) · de berauscht (infatuated) · de liebestrunken (infatuated) · es ebrio (intoxicated) · de wonnetrunken (infatuated) · de betört (infatuated) · de benebelt (intellectually or morally blinded) · de verdummt (intellectually or morally blinded) · es embelesado (infatuated) · ca obcecat (intellectually or morally blinded)