Smitten meaning

Adjective: smitten

Pronunciation: (smi-t(u)n)

Smitten meaning:

• (used in combination) affected by something overwhelming
• Marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness

Synonyms: enamored, infatuated, besotted

Quotations: J.R.R. Tolkien – In life there can be no victor, for death comes to all and smites them.

William Shakespeare – I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their faces, beat the ground for kissing of their feet.

Atharvanaveda (Indian mythology) – May their weapons fall from their hands, may they be unable to lay the arrow on the bow! And then our arrows shall smite them, badly frightened, in their vital members!

Ed Westwick – I’m all for being in love and whenever I like someone; I end up pretty much completely smitten.

Isoroku Yamamoto – A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.

Clive Sinclair – In the 1880s, a weedy Easterner named Owen Wister had something like a nervous breakdown. Wyoming, with its wide-open spaces and healthy pursuits, was prescribed as a cure. Wister was immediately smitten by the taciturn cowboys and the rules imposed upon them by the cattle barons.

Sample sentences:

1. But that two-handed engine at the door stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
2. Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.
3. As the lightning at all times smites irresistibly the tree, thus would I to-day irresistibly beat the gamesters with my dice!
4. Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven’t told the girl you are smitten with her.
5. I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one another.
6. I am a glutton for a beautiful hotel. I am so easily smitten by high thread counts.
7. People thought I was very pro-computer. I was on the cover of ‘Wired’ magazine. Then things began to change. In the early 80’s, we met this technology and became smitten like young lovers. But today our attachment is unhealthy.
8. If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world.
9. There are certain books that should be taken away from young writers; that should be prised out of their clutching fingers and locked away until they are all grown up and ready to read them without being smitten.
10. When I look someone in the eye, they are immediately smitten with me.
11. I’d seen all the great entertainers by the time I was 14 or 15. My mother was artistic. My father was a bookmaker, so he had access to all those nightclubs, and he was smitten by certain artists, and we would go see them.
12. He is a keen user of the wood-fired oven and is particularly smitten with the flavour it imparts to his food.
13. I was smitten with her.
14. As I walked over the long causeway made for the railroad through the meadows, I encountered many a blustering and nipping wind, for nowhere has it freer play; and when the frost had smitten me on one cheek, heathen as I was, I turned to it the other also.
15. The revival of high doctrines of prerogative in the crown was accompanied by a revival of high doctrines of privilege in the House of Commons, and the ministry was so smitten with weakness and confusion as to be unable to resist the current of arbitrary policy, and not many of them were even willing to resist it.