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Antonyms for smitten


Grammar : Adj
Spell : smit-n
Phonetic Transcription : ˈsmɪt n



Definition of smitten

Origin :
  • mid-13c., "struck hard, afflicted, visited with disaster," past participle adjective from smite. Sense of "inspired with love" is from 1660s.
  • adj enamored
Example sentences :
  • The unhappy woman, to whom I had specially come, was smitten indeed.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
  • Some of us who have been smitten may have come near to doing this ourselves, or may have done it.
  • Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
  • Smitten to the heart by a sudden and overwhelming remorse, Hetty was speechless.
  • Extract from : « Hetty's Strange History » by Anonymous
  • Everyone laughingly said that Goujet was smitten with Gervaise.
  • Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola
  • At this point a number of tea-trays were smitten resonantly "off."
  • Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 18, 1914 » by Various
  • Her other predictions had passed him by, but this one had smitten him.
  • Extract from : « The Scapegoat » by Hall Caine
  • And yet, and yet, and yet, her bodily infirmities were but the type and sign of how her soul was smitten.
  • Extract from : « The Scapegoat » by Hall Caine
  • David Rossi gave a start, as if an invisible hand had smitten him.
  • Extract from : « The Eternal City » by Hall Caine
  • It was just as if the power of thought had been smitten out of me.
  • Extract from : « The Woman Thou Gavest Me » by Hall Caine
  • The smile was smitten away from the Bishop's face by this announcement.
  • Extract from : « The Woman Thou Gavest Me » by Hall Caine

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