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adjective
- 1. filled with excessive and single-minded zeal: "fanatical revolutionaries" Similar Opposite
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FANATICAL definition: 1. extremely interested in something, to a degree that some people find unreasonable: 2. holding…. Learn more.
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?
Fanatical can be used to describe either a kind of fanatic or such a person’s beliefs or behavior. Example: We dismiss these extreme beliefs by calling them fanatical, but they may be more widespread than we think.
If you are excessively enthusiastic about something — a sports team, an actor, your religion, saving the whales, a certain brand of chocolate — then you are fanatical about it. Fanatical comes from the word fanatic, which itself came from the Latin fanaticus, meaning "mad" or "inspired by a deity."
If you describe someone as fanatical, you disapprove of them because you consider their behaviour or opinions to be very extreme.
FANATICAL meaning: 1. extremely interested in something, to a degree that some people find unreasonable: 2. holding…. Learn more.
Fanatic, zealot, militant, devotee refer to persons showing more than ordinary support for, adherence to, or interest in a cause, point of view, or activity. 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.
Define fanatical. fanatical synonyms, fanatical pronunciation, fanatical translation, English dictionary definition of fanatical. adj. Possessed with or motivated by excessive, irrational zeal. fa·nat′i·cal·ly adv. fa·nat′i·cal·ness n.
a person who is extremely interested in something, to a degree that some people find unreasonable: a fitness / sports 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.
Definition of fanatical adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
