enamored of

enamored of (someone or something)

Infatuated or in love with someone or something. April won't stop talking about her new boyfriend—she's totally enamored of him. Tommy is enamored of baseball right now, so just get him a bat for his birthday.
See also: enamor, of
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

*enamored of someone or something

to feel love for someone or something. (Often an exaggeration. *Typically: be ~; become ~.) She is hopelessly enamored of Tom. Tom is enamored of chocolate ice cream.
See also: enamor, of
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • enamor
  • enamored of (someone or something)
  • be infatuated with (someone or something)
  • infatuated
  • infatuated with
  • infatuated with (someone or something)
  • become infatuated with (someone or something)
  • in love
  • in love (with someone or something)
  • be taken with (someone or something)
References in classic literature
Still continuing no less attached to union than enamored of liberty, they observed the danger which immediately threatened the former and more remotely the latter; and being pursuaded that ample security for both could only be found in a national government more wisely framed, they as with one voice, convened the late convention at Philadelphia, to take that important subject under consideration.
Federalist Papers Authored by John Jay
A half-witted boy of the school became enamored of the young master.
Winesberg Ohio
At a very early age--perhaps it was when she traversed the ocean of waving grass--she remembered that she had been passionately enamored of a dignified and sad-eyed cavalry officer who visited her father in Kentucky.
Awakening and Selected Short Stories
The "perfume" of Sallie Tisdale's work will be enticing to all readers enamored of the essay form.
Violation; Collected Essays
Her kidnapper, enamored of her, forced her to convert to Islam and to raise his children.
Jewish Woman Finally Returns to Family
If Germany is so enamored of Forsythe, then perhaps he should remain there.
Long live Balanchine
citizens have been enamored of the idea of space flight.
Space 50
"The main thing that fiction does is rev up the quality of our awareness, make us more involved in the world, more enamored of it," he says.
George Saunders: satirist
We Humanists, who seek to lead ethical lives without supernaturalism, are even more enamored of uninhibited free speech rights.
Cartoons, commentary, and restraint
Prouve is best known for his astringently functional, mostly metal furniture, but he was so enamored of pressed steel and aluminum that he wanted to use them for all aspects of modern living.
Pret a Prouve: Thomas Lawson on the tropical house
Imagine Me & You imagines the Hugh Grant romantic comedy genre with a sapphic twist: Piper Perabo plays a neurotic newlywed enamored of a female florist.
Toronto Film Festival
I once worked for a firm whose CEO became enamored of reengineering, then a recent fad.
The power of point of view: truly innovative ideas consist of thinking about familiar things in unfamiliar ways, but how can one distinguish really good ideas from those that are mere gimmicks?
She has left the US enamored of a wealthy New England student who, as the reader well knows, is not worthy of her.
Kricorian, Nancy. Dreams of bread and fire
While the Wall Street types seem preoccupied with the IPO of the company behind the Google search engine, many engineers are becoming enamored of a different Web-search system called GlobalSpec (Troy, N.Y.).
Search engine for engineering
It's funny, there seems to have always been a segment of the punk population that has remained enamored of baseball, and this is a great manifestation of the duo.
Zine thing