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say it: SMIT-uhn
smitten is an adjective meaning "(used in combination) affected by something overwhelming". It is pronounced /ˈsmɪtən/ — SMIT-uhn. It carries 2 recorded senses.
marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness
“he was infatuated with her”
“Narcissus was a beautiful Greek youth who became enamored of his own reflection”
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 smitten 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.