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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.
The meaning of FANATIC is a person exhibiting excessive enthusiasm and intense uncritical devotion toward some controversial matter (as in religion or politics).
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.
What does fanatic mean? 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.
If you describe someone as a fanatic, you disapprove of them because you consider their behaviour or opinions to be very extreme, for example in the way they support particular religious or political ideas.
Definition of fanatic adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
If you describe someone as a fanatic, you disapprove of them because you consider their behavior or opinions to be very extreme, for example, in the way they support particular religious or political ideas.
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]
Fanatic definition: A person marked or motivated by an extreme, unreasoning enthusiasm, as for a cause.
Fanatic and zealot both suggest excessive or overweening devotion to a cause or belief. Fanatic further implies unbalanced or obsessive behavior: a wild-eyed fanatic.
