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Sottish vs Infatuate - What's the difference?

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Sottish is a synonym of infatuate.


As adjectives the difference between sottish and infatuate

is that sottish is alcoholic, drinking heavily while infatuate is (obsolete) infatuated; full of unreasoning love or attachment.

As a verb infatuate is

to inspire with unreasoning love or attachment.

sottish

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • alcoholic, drinking heavily
  • drunk
  • foolish, stupid, senseless
  • :1769 -
  • :For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

    • Quotations

    *Gabriel strove to restrain himself from breaking out into brutal language about the sottish Malins and his pound. - "The Dead", from "Dubliners" by James Joyce (1914)

    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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