Definition of Besotted

Adjective: besotted  bi'só-tid

1. Marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness
   "he was besotted with her";
   - enamored [US], infatuated, in love, potty [Brit, informal], smitten, soft on, taken with, enamoured [Brit, Cdn]
    
2. [archaic] Very drunk
   "I had travelling money and got besotted in the bar downstairs";
   - blind drunk, blotto, crocked [N. Amer], cockeyed, fuddled, loaded [N. Amer], pie-eyed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet, pickled, tanked up, bombed, wasted, liquored up [N. Amer], three sheets to the wind, swacked [N. Amer], juiced [N. Amer], stonkered [Austral, NZ], bladdered [Brit], lit, paralytic [Brit], legless [Brit], steaming, out of it [Brit], stinko, blitzed, mullered [Brit], trashed, stewed, hammered, trolleyed [Brit], fried [N. Amer], bevvied [Brit], drunk, pixillated, squiffed, half-seas-over [Brit]

1. Make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation
   - stupefy

See also:
besots
besotting

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