 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
fanatic
adjective: marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a
cause or idea; "rabid isolationist" [syn: {fanatical},
{overzealous}, {rabid}]
noun: a person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a
cause); "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and
won't change the subject"--Winston Churchill [syn: {fiend}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fanatic \Fa*nat"ic\, noun
A person affected by excessive enthusiasm, particularly on
religious subjects; one who indulges wild and extravagant
notions of religion.
There is a new word, coined within few months, called
fanatics, which, by the close stickling thereof,
seemeth well cut out and proportioned to signify what
is meant thereby, even the sectaries of our age.
--Fuller
(1660).
Fanatics are governed rather by imagination than by
judgment. --Stowe.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fanatic \Fa*nat"ic\, adjective [L. fanaticus inspired by divinity,
enthusiastic, frantic, fr. fanum fane: cf. F. fanatique. See
{Fane}.]
Pertaining to, or indicating, fanaticism; extravagant in
opinions; ultra; unreasonable; excessively enthusiastic,
especially on religious subjects; as, fanatic zeal; fanatic
notions.
But Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fast
To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last. --T.
Moore.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
136 Moby Thesaurus words for "fanatic":
Christian, God-fearing man, accepter, addict, aficionado, alien,
aliene, ass, bedlamite, believer, bigot, bitter-ender,
borderline case, buff, bug, bullethead, case, catechumen,
character, chauvinist, churchgoer, churchite, churchman, collector,
communicant, convert, crackbrain, crackpot, crank,
daily communicant, dement, demon, demoniac, devotee, devotionalist,
diehard, disciple, doctrinaire, dogmatist, donkey, eager beaver,
eccentric, energumen, enthusiast, extremist, faddist, fan,
fanatico, fiend, flake, follower, fou, freak, good Christian,
great one for, hardnose, hermit, hobbyist, hobo, hound, idiot,
illiberal, infatuate, intolerant, intransigeant, intransigent,
jingo, kook, last-ditcher, lone wolf, loner, loon, loony, lunatic,
lunatic fringe, madman, male chauvinist, maniac, maverick,
meshuggenah, monomaniac, mule, natural, neophyte, noncompos,
nonconformist, nut, odd fellow, oddball, oddity, original,
outsider, pariah, perverse fool, phrenetic, pietist, pig, pighead,
positivist, proselyte, purist, pursuer, queer duck, queer fish,
queer specimen, rabid, racist, radical, rara avis, raving lunatic,
receiver, religionist, revolutional, revolutionary, revolutionist,
rhapsodist, saint, screwball, sexist, solitary, standpat,
standpatter, stickler, sucker for, superpatriot, theist, tramp,
truster, type, ultra, ultraist, ultranationalist, visionary,
votary, weirdo, zealot
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