smitten

[ smit-n ]

adjective

1. overwhelmed with attraction or affection toward someone or something.
2. struck, such as with a hard blow.
3. grievously or disastrously stricken or afflicted.

verb

1. a past participle of smite.

smitten

/ ˈsmɪtən /

verb

1. a past participle of smite

adjective

1. postpositive affected by love (for)

Other Word Forms

• un·smit·ten adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of smitten¹

First recorded in 1200–50; Middle English; equivalent to smite + -en ³

Example Sentences

And when she tells him her story has touched his heart, it’s almost like she is smitten.

From Los Angeles Times

She got a ticket to London from a smitten suitor, bringing her grandmother along.

From Los Angeles Times

For 24 years, viewers worldwide have been smitten with the lovably neurotic, hopeless romantic Bridget Jones.

From Salon

When she smiled at him, utterly smitten, all the men in the room would swoon with envy.

From Los Angeles Times

She wound up in a town she’d never noticed before, standing outside a bedraggled old motel, smitten.

From Los Angeles Times