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- Dictionaryfanatic/fəˈnatɪk/
noun
- 1. a person filled with excessive and single-minded zeal, especially for an extreme religious or political cause: "religious fanatics" Similar Opposite
adjective
- 1. filled with or expressing excessive zeal: "his eyes had a fanatic iciness"
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a person who is extremely interested in something, to a degree that some people find unreasonable: a fitness / film fanatic. disapproving. a person who has very extreme beliefs that may lead them to behave in unreasonable or violent ways: religious fanatics. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Enthusiasts. -aholic. -oholic. aficionado.
The meaning of FANATIC is a person exhibiting excessive enthusiasm and intense uncritical devotion toward some controversial matter (as in religion or politics). How to use fanatic in a sentence. The Fanatical Origin of Fan Did you know?
A fanatic is a person with an extreme and often unquestioning enthusiasm, devotion, or zeal for something, such as a religion, political stance, or cause. This sense of the word is typically used negatively to imply that someone takes such devotion too far, as in They’re considered religious fanatics due to their extreme practices.
If you describe someone as a fanatic, you disapprove of them because you consider their behaviour or opinions to be very extreme.
If you’re apt to come off as a little zany and express extreme enthusiasm for a particular idea or thing, you may be described as a fanatic. "She’s a real vegetable fanatic; I’ve never seen someone so enthusiastic about gardening methods.
n. 1. a person whose enthusiasm or zeal for something is extreme or beyond normal limits. 2. informal a person devoted to a particular hobby or pastime; fan: a jazz fanatic. adj. a variant of fanatical. [C16: from Latin fānāticus belonging to a temple, hence, inspired by a god, frenzied, from fānum temple]
adjective. /fəˈnætɪk/ (also fanatical) (disapproving) holding, expressing or connected with extreme or dangerous opinions. fanatic followers of the cult leader. fanatic ideology. fanatic about something He's fanatic about his religious beliefs. Want to learn more?
