in love
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Feeling strong romantic affection or passion for someone: Describes the emotional state of being romantically attached to or enamored with another person.
- Marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness: Describes an intense, sometimes irrational, infatuation or obsession with someone or something.
Examples of Usage
- Adjective:
- They have been in love since they were teenagers. (They have felt strong romantic affection for each other since that time.)
- She is completely in love with her new partner. (She is deeply enamored with him.)
- He was in love with the idea of living abroad. (He was irrationally fond of or obsessed with that idea.)
Advanced Usage
- "Head over heels in love": Intensely and completely in love.
- After their first date, he was head over heels in love.
- "Madly in love": Passionately and deeply in love.
- The young couple are madly in love with each other.
Variants and Related Words
- Lovestruck (adj): Overwhelmed by feelings of love.
- He was a lovestruck teenager.
- Infatuated (adj): Possessed by an intense but short-lived passion or admiration.
- She was infatuated with the famous actor.
Synonyms
- Enamored: Charmed or captivated.
- Smitten: Affected strongly by love or infatuation.
- Besotted: Strongly infatuated.
Related Phrases
- Fall in love: To begin to feel love for someone.
- They met and fell in love quickly.
- Be in love with: To have romantic feelings for someone.
- He is in love with his best friend.
Related Idioms
- Love is blind: The feeling of love can prevent someone from seeing the faults of the person they love.
- He doesn't see her flaws; love is blind.
- Crazy in love: To be very intensely and passionately in love.
- The song describes feeling crazy in love.
Adjective
- marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness
- gaga over the rock group's new album
- he was infatuated with her