enamored

English

Alternative forms

• (British spelling) enamoured
• (all obsolete) enamor’d, enamour’d, inamor’d, inamored, inamour’d, inamoured

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English enamoured, a partial calque of Old French enamore, past participle of enamorer, enamourer; compare amour and enamor, enamour.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɪˈnæməɹd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

enamored (comparative more enamored, superlative most enamored)

1. In love, amorous.

   She's enamored of [or with] her new boyfriend.

   • 2002, Charles Hebbert, Dan Richardson, The Rough Guide to Budapest, 2nd edition, London: Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 73:

     During the 1980s, its vivid streetlife became a symbol of the “consumer socialism” that distinguished Hungary from other Eastern Bloc states, but Budapesters today are rather less enamoured of Váci: dressed-to-kill babes and their sugar daddies would rather pose in malls, and teenagers can find McDonald's anywhere, leaving Váci utterly dependent on tourists for its livelihood and bustle.

Synonyms

• (totally in love): head over heels, twitterpated

Translations

in love, amorous

• Arabic: عَاشِق (ʕāšiq)
• Azerbaijani: aşiq (az)
• Belarusian: закаха́ны (zakaxány), улюблёны (uljubljóny)
• Bulgarian: влю́бен (bg) (vljúben)
• Czech: zamilovaný (cs), okouzlený
• Danish: forelsket (da)
• Dutch: verliefd (nl)
• French: amoureux (fr), enamouré (fr)
• German: verliebt (de), hingezogen (de), entzückt (de), hingerissen (de), gefesselt (de), fasziniert (de)
• Hebrew: מאוהב \ מְאֹהָב (m'ohav)
• Italian: innamorato (it)
• Kazakh: ғашық (ğaşyq), ғашық болған (ğaşyq bolğan)
• Kyrgyz: ашык болгон (aşık bolgon)
• Macedonian: заљубен (zaljuben), вљубен (vljuben)
• Middle English: enamoured
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forelsket (no)

• Persian: آلفته (fa) (âlofte), شیدا (fa) (šeydâ), عاشق (fa) ('âšeq)
• Polish: zakochany (pl)
• Romanian: amorezat (ro), înamorat (ro), îndrăgostit (ro)
• Russian: влюблённый (ru) (vljubljónnyj), очаро́ванный (ru) (očaróvannyj) (charmed), без ума́ (ru) (bez umá) (crazy, out of mind), в восто́рге (ru) (v vostórge) (delighted)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: за̀љӯбљен

  Roman: zàljūbljen (sh)

• Slovak: zamilovaný
• Slovene: zaljubljen (sl)
• Spanish: enamorado (es)
• Swedish: betagen (sv), betuttad (sv), störtförälskad
• Turkish: aşık (tr)
• Ukrainian: зако́ханий (zakóxanyj), залю́блений (zaljúblenyj)

Verb

enamored

1. simple past and past participle of enamor

References

• “enamored”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “enamored”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

Anagrams

• demeanor, one-armed