infatuated

1. (obsolete) Foolish, stupid, lacking good judgment (often as a result of some external influence).Examples: "[…] that people must needs be madd or strangely infatuated, that build the chief hope of thir common happiness or safetie on a single person […]"; "It is possible, that had they not been so infatuated, as to imagine they could retrieve in Germany all that they had lost in America, the British court in the beginning of the year 1759 might have listened to terms of accommodation."; "So deep did they go; and so ancient, and corroded, and weedy the aspect of the lowermost puncheons, that you almost looked next for some mouldy corner-stone cask containing coins of Captain Noah, with copies of the posted placards, vainly warning the infatuated old world from the flood."obsolete