SMITTEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does smitten mean? 

• SMITTEN (adjective)
  The adjective SMITTEN has 2 senses:

1. (used in combination) affected by something overwhelming

2. marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness

  Familiarity information: SMITTEN used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SMITTEN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(used in combination) affected by something overwhelming

Synonyms:

smitten; stricken; struck

Context example:

awe-struck

Similar:

affected (acted upon; influenced)

Domain usage:

combining form (a bound form used only in compounds)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness

Synonyms:

enamored; in love; infatuated; potty; smitten; soft on; taken with

Context example:

Narcissus was a beautiful Greek youth who became enamored of his own reflection

Similar:

loving (feeling or showing love and affection)

 Context examples 

Brother Mark of the Spicarium is sore smitten with a fever and could not come.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Poor Brandon! he is quite smitten already, and he is very well worth setting your cap at, I can tell you, in spite of all this tumbling about and spraining of ankles.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Elizabeth was of a calmer and more concentrated disposition; but, with all my ardour, I was capable of a more intense application and was more deeply smitten with the thirst for knowledge.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Many, already smitten, went home only to die: some died at the school, and were buried quietly and quickly, the nature of the malady forbidding delay.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I had now plenty of water and good things to eat, and my conscience, which had smitten me hard for my desertion, was quieted by the great conquest I had made.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Wolf Larsen had been smitten with one of his headaches, and I stood at the wheel from morning until evening, sailing across the ocean after the last lee boat, and heaving to and picking it and the other five up without command or suggestion from him.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The old gentleman liked the fun, and amused himself by sending odd bundles, mysterious messages, and funny telegrams, and his gardener, who was smitten with Hannah's charms, actually sent a love letter to Jo's care.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I am not in the least provoked at the sight of a lawyer, a pickpocket, a colonel, a fool, a lord, a gamester, a politician, a whoremonger, a physician, an evidence, a suborner, an attorney, a traitor, or the like; this is all according to the due course of things: but when I behold a lump of deformity and diseases, both in body and mind, smitten with pride, it immediately breaks all the measures of my patience; neither shall I be ever able to comprehend how such an animal, and such a vice, could tally together.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Another instant, and I had smitten him: the son of my own mother, the man whom I have longed to take to my heart.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was in my own room as usual—just myself, without obvious change: nothing had smitten me, or scathed me, or maimed me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)