1. Feeling strong, obsessive or foolish love
   "He was completely besotted with his new girlfriend";
   - enamored [US], infatuated, in love, potty [Brit, informal], smitten, soft on [informal], taken with, enamoured [Brit, Cdn], lovestruck [informal]
    
2. [archaic] Very drunk
   "I had travelling money and got besotted in the bar downstairs";
   - blind drunk [informal], blotto [informal], crocked [N. Amer, informal], cockeyed [informal], fuddled [informal], loaded [N. Amer, informal], pie-eyed [informal], pissed [Brit, informal], pixilated [informal], plastered [informal], sloshed [informal], smashed [informal], soaked [informal], soused [informal], sozzled [informal], stiff [informal], tight [informal], wet [informal], drunk, bombed [informal], three sheets to the wind [informal], off one's face [Brit, informal], pickled [informal], stinko [informal], fried [N. Amer, informal], legless [Brit, informal], blootered [UK, dialect], paralytic [Brit, informal], stewed [informal], liquored up [N. Amer], swacked [N. Amer, informal], steaming [informal], trashed [informal], trolleyed [Brit, informal], bladdered [Brit, informal], mullered [Brit, informal], trollied [Brit, informal], tanked up [informal], screwed [informal], lit up [slang], wasted [informal], out of it [Brit, informal], hammered [informal], blitzed [informal], stonkered [Austral, NZ, informal], juiced [N. Amer, informal], wrecked [Brit, informal], bevvied [Brit, informal], pixillated, half-seas-over [Brit, informal]

1. Make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation
   "He was besotted by her charm and beauty";
   - stupefy

See also: drunk, gone, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, loving, ripped [informal], skunked [informal]

Type of: desensitise [Brit], desensitize

Encyclopedia: Besotted