Definition of besotted
1
: blindly or utterly infatuated
- besotted lovers
- They have a mad affair. He is besotted. But she is an expensive partner, and he needs money to keep her in style.
- —Newgate Callendar
- The husband … seems besotted with his wife and horribly jealous of the bird she's protecting.
- —Edmund White
2
: intoxicated or stupefied especially with drink
- … longed only to get out of the house for a lively evening with his old cronies, who were boorish, bumbling and besotted every last one of them.
- —Dennis Drabelle
- We issued into an empty street through a half-open door, staggering like besotted revellers.
- —Joseph Conrad
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besottedly
adverb-
- She had gone back with him to his flat that first night blindly and besottedly in love with him.
- —Anne Mulcock
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besottedness
noun-
- I was besotted with the idea and the reality of Venice, and that besottedness has never quite left me …
- —Erica Jong
