Besotted

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Besot \Be*sot"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Besotted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Besotting}.]
     To make sottish; to make dull or stupid; to stupefy; to
     infatuate.
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           Fools besotted with their crimes.        --Hudibras.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Besotted \Be*sot"ted\, a.
     Made sottish, senseless, or infatuated; characterized by
     drunken stupidity, or by infatuation; stupefied. "Besotted
     devotion." --Sir W. Scott. -- {Be*sot"ted*ly}, adv. --
     {Be*sot"ted*ness}, n. --Milton.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  besotted
       adj : very drunk [syn: {blind drunk}, {blotto}, {crocked}, {cockeyed},
              {fuddled}, {loaded}, {pie-eyed}, {pissed}, {pixilated},
              {plastered}, {potty}, {slopped}, {sloshed}, {smashed},
              {soaked}, {soused}, {sozzled}, {squiffy}, {stiff}, {tiddly},
              {tiddley}, {tight}, {tipsy}, {wet}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  97 Moby Thesaurus words for "besotted":
     addled, apish, asinine, batty, beery, befooled, beguiled, bemused,
     blind drunk, brainless, buffoonish, cockeyed, crapulent, crapulous,
     crazy, credulous, daffy, daft, dazed, dizzy, doting, dotty,
     drenched, drunk, drunken, dumb, enamored, far-gone, fatuitous,
     fatuous, fixated, flaky, flustered, fond, fool, foolheaded,
     foolish, fou, fuddled, full, futile, gaga, gay, giddy, glorious,
     goofy, gripped, gulled, happy, held, hung-up, idiotic, imbecile,
     in liquor, inane, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, inept,
     infatuate, infatuated, insane, intoxicated, jolly, kooky, loony,
     mad, maudlin, mellow, merry, monomaniac, monomaniacal, moronic,
     muddled, nappy, nutty, obsessed, possessed, preoccupied,
     prepossessed, reeling, sappy, screwy, senseless, sentimental,
     shikker, silly, sodden, sotted, stupid, thoughtless, tiddly, tipsy,
     under the influence, wacky, wet, witless