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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BESOT'TED, pp. Made sottish or stupid. Besotted on, infatuated with foolish affection.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: very drunk [syn: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet]

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 infatuated. 2 foolish, confused. 3 intoxicated, stupefied. Etymology: besot (v.) (as BE-, SOT)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Besotted Be*sot"ted, a. Made sottish, senseless, or infatuated; characterized by drunken stupidity, or by infatuation; stupefied. ``Besotted devotion.'' --Sir W. Scott. -- Be*sot"ted*ly, adv. -- Be*sot"ted*ness, n. --Milton.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Besot Be*sot", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Besotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Besotting.] To make sottish; to make dull or stupid; to stupefy; to infatuate. Fools besotted with their crimes. --Hudibras.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you are besotted with someone or something, you like them so much that you seem foolish or silly. He became so besotted with her that even his children were forgotten. = infatuated ADJ: usu v-link ADJ, oft ADJ with n

Moby Thesaurus

addled, apish, asinine, batty, beery, befooled, beguiled, bemused, blind drunk, brainless, buffoonish, cockeyed, crapulent, crapulous, crazy, credulous, daffy, daft, dazed, dizzy, doting, dotty, drenched, drunk, drunken, dumb, enamored, far-gone, fatuitous, fatuous, fixated, flaky, flustered, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, fou, fuddled, full, futile, gaga, gay, giddy, glorious, goofy, gripped, gulled, happy, held, hung-up, idiotic, imbecile, in liquor, inane, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, inept, infatuate, infatuated, insane, intoxicated, jolly, kooky, loony, mad, maudlin, mellow, merry, monomaniac, monomaniacal, moronic, muddled, nappy, nutty, obsessed, possessed, preoccupied, prepossessed, reeling, sappy, screwy, senseless, sentimental, shikker, silly, sodden, sotted, stupid, thoughtless, tiddly, tipsy, under the influence, wacky, wet, witless