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IN LOVE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness
Example:
Narcissus was a beautiful Greek youth who became enamored of his own reflection
Synonyms:
enamored; in love; infatuated; potty; smitten; soft on; taken with
Classified under:
Similar:
loving (feeling or showing love and affection)
Context examples:
But then, Joe was not in love, had none of the responsibilities of love, and he could afford to loaf through the land of nothing-to-do.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
She is so sweet with old people; I think they all fell in love with her on the spot.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Meanwhile, your arrangement was rather upset by the fact that you had yourself fallen in love with the lady.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I, Humphrey Van Weyden, was in love!
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
That he should have been in love with her for so many months!
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Mama says HE was in love with your sister too.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
A subtype of delusional disorder characterized by the central delusional theme that another person (usually one of higher status) is in love with the individual.
(Erotomanic Type Delusional Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)
I may mention that her husband had left her comfortably off, and that she had a capital of about four thousand five hundred pounds, which had been so well invested by him that it returned an average of seven per cent. She had only been six months at Pinner when I met her; we fell in love with each other, and we married a few weeks afterwards.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
So the lady stole it away, and he never found any more gold under his pillow, for it lay now under the young lady’s, and the old woman took it away every morning; but he was so much in love that he never missed his prize.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth; but no one can love who has not a heart, and so I am resolved to ask Oz to give me one.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
