BESOTTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does besotted mean? 

• BESOTTED (adjective)
  The adjective BESOTTED has 1 sense:

1. very drunk

  Familiarity information: BESOTTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BESOTTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Very drunk

Synonyms:

plastered; wet; tight; stiff; squiffy; sozzled; soused; soaked; smashed; sloshed; slopped; besotted; pixilated; pissed; pie-eyed; loaded; fuddled; crocked; cockeyed; blotto; blind drunk

Similar:

drunk; gone; inebriated; intoxicated; ripped (stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol))

Domain usage:

argot; cant; jargon; lingo; patois; slang; vernacular (a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves))

 Context examples 

There is no folly so besotted that the idiotic rivalries of society, the prurience, the rashness, the blindness of youth, will not hurry a man to its commission.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I was a fool to let her go on biding with us—a besotted fool—but I never said a word to Mary, for I knew it would grieve her.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And that is saying a great deal; for after all, the British peasantry are the best taught, best mannered, most self-respecting of any in Europe: since those days I have seen paysannes and Bauerinnen; and the best of them seemed to me ignorant, coarse, and besotted, compared with my Morton girls.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)