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Doltish vs Infatuate - What's the difference?

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Doltish is a related term of infatuate.


As adjectives the difference between doltish and infatuate

is that doltish is like a dolt; dull in intellect; stupid while infatuate is (obsolete) infatuated; full of unreasoning love or attachment.

As a verb infatuate is

to inspire with unreasoning love or attachment.

doltish

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Like a dolt; dull in intellect; stupid.
  • * (Herman Melville), Moby-Dick
    • Take off thine eye! more intolerable than fiends' glarings is a doltish stare!

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * doltishness

    infatuate

    English

    Verb

    (infatuat)
  • To inspire with unreasoning love or attachment.

    • Related terms

    * infatuation * fatuity * fatuously * fatuousness * infatuate

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Infatuated; full of unreasoning love or attachment.
    • (Bishop Hall)
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