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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 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.