stricken

/ˈstrɪkən/

/ˈstrɪkɪn/

Other forms: strickenly

Stricken means "overwhelmed by emotion." When you saw the pretty new girl at school smiling at you, you were so stricken you walked right into a wall.

Stricken means "affected," whether it's in a good way — being so stricken by spring fever that you can't stop singing and goofing around — or bad, like being stricken by a real fever and a sore throat and the chills and. . . you get the idea. You can also be stricken by fear, like a family so stricken by fear of bedbugs that they cancelled their hotel reservation and just slept in their car.

Definitions of stricken

1. adjective

   grievously affected especially by disease
   synonyms: afflicted

   ill, sick

   affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
2. adjective

   put out of action (by illness)
   synonyms: laid low

   ill, sick

   affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
3. adjective

   (used in combination) affected by something overwhelming
   synonyms: smitten, struck

   affected

   acted upon; influenced