fanatical
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6.8
- adjective
- /fəˈnætɪkəl/
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fanático
- After graduate school, I married a man who was a fanatical house cleaner.
- fanatical devotion
- fanatical fundamentalist
- the most fanatical
And how do you defeat a fanatical ideology which is international?
- And how do you defeat a fanatical ideology which is international?
- And so I still eat it when I go to friends houses because otherwise I look like some, you know, fanatical food snob.
- The more crazy it gets, the more fanatical people get, the real entrepreneurs will find more opportunity.
- And now, you know, I don't think anyone here listening to the show thinks I'm like some crazy, you know, fanatical Christian who's just like out there, right?
- Is the Ayatollah or even just the leadership structure of Iran, though so narcissistically, religiously fanatical
- I watch some that really that they're, they're fanatical and they're really good at like, let me show you, let me explain.
- So it's, it's almost like an apology when we've interviewed German, German veterans and they're not s s, they're not fanatical.
Examples
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Their religion too readily becomes merely a fanatical reaction of the soul against materialism.
Academic text (2001) -
You think about how fanatical people already get about companies like Apple, Microsoft, Google.
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Well, I was very fanatical about the job.
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It's not a fanatical belief that you should always do it.
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The more crazy it gets, the more fanatical people get, the real entrepreneurs will find more opportunity.
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If there's one thing I'm fanatical about, it's my daily practice of yoga.
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Their fans are fanatical.
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Walk in this tent, you know, it's like, Jesus Christ, there's 10,000 other people absolutely fanatical about Frank.
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Nom Anor loved it all, the adulation and the fanatical, bordering on suicidal, devotion.
Fiction book (2000) -
He is fanatical about his favorite sports team and never misses a game.
Synonyms
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3.5
Very enthusiastic or excited, often in a way that seems unreasonable
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6.3
Feeling very strong excitement or love for something
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7.5
Showing extreme and unreasonable support for a person or idea
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7.7
Being too eager and causing problems
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6.1
Showing very strong and true feelings, often for a person or cause
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6.8
Being very excited and active about a cause or goal
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4.3
Showing very strong enthusiasm for a cause in a way that ignores reason
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4.2
Feeling too excited or eager in a way that bothers other people
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8.4
Being very strong and excited about something
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8.9
Giving extreme love or worship to someone treated like a god
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9.9
Being very focused on one idea and ignoring other things
Antonyms
How Enthusiastic
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Fanatical comes from fanatic, from the old Latin fanaticus, from fanum meaning 'temple' and used for people thought 'possessed by a god'. So fanatical means very strong, often uncritical, enthusiasm or devotion, and the short word fan comes from the same root.