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say it: in-FACH-oo-ayt
infatuate is a verb meaning "arouse unreasoning love or passion in and cause to behave in an irrational way". It is pronounced /ˌɪnˈfætʃuˌeɪt/ — in-FACH-oo-ayt. It carries one recorded sense.
arouse unreasoning love or passion in and cause to behave in an irrational way
“His new car has infatuated him”
“love has infatuated her”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for infatuate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.