Fanatical

Word FANATICAL
Character 9
Hyphenation fa nat ic al
Pronunciations /fəˈnætɪkəl/

Definitions and meanings of "Fanatical"

What do we mean by fanatical?

Possessed with or motivated by excessive, irrational zeal. adjective

Wild and extravagant in opinions, particularly in religious opinions; extreme, or maintaining opinions in an extreme way; especially, inordinately zealous, enthusiastic, or bigoted.

Of an extravagant, extreme, or inordinately zealous kind: as, fanatical ideas.

Synonyms Enthusiastic, Fanatical, etc. See enthusiastic and superstition.

Characteristic of, or relating to, fanaticism; fanatic. adjective

Having an extreme, irrational zeal or enthusiasm for a specific cause adjective

Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea adjective

Having an extreme, irrational zeal or enthusiasm for a specific cause.

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The word "fanatical" in example sentences

Its no coincidence that the word fanatical comes up so often when talking about this companys customer service ethic. ❋ Emily Yellin (2009)

You know they are extremely verdant, as well as what you term fanatical, and they are not likely to make any capital out of such ❋ Austin Potter (1877)

We did not believe what history had told us on her every bloody page, that a tyrant, or a class of tyranical men would commit all crimes of which human nature is capable, under the vain fanatical belief that they could put man down and keep him down. ❋ Unknown (1865)

You call it fanatical, and so does the world; but it has been, and ever is, the most comfortable animating doctrine of the Jewish church, from David "the sweet Psalmist of Israel," and of the Church Of CHRIST, from its institution. ❋ Unknown (1865)

In a 2007 interview with the Design Museum in Britain, he says Apple's design process is characterized by "fanatical care beyond the obvious stuff: the obsessive attention to details that are often overlooked, like cables and power adaptors." ❋ By The Associated Press (2011)

Mainstream dailies denounced such reforms as "fanatical" - but years later they became law. ❋ Unknown (2008)

’ ” When Celia was six, “We did have to have a small conversation about defining what the word fanatical means,” says Kuchta. “Now we can say the m-word. ❋ Unknown (2010)

(the same Greek) wind : rapt out of themselves: still not in fanatical excitement (1Co 14: 32). ❋ Unknown (1871)

It sickens me everyday when I get called a fanatical liberal by my friends and co-workers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And among her siblings, Toby was known as fanatical about doing the right thing. ❋ Unknown (2008)

There MAY be a genetic predisposition to SOME who are fanatical, that is to say extremely Republican adherents. ❋ Unknown (2006)

But just then you recall his fanatical training regimen, which has helped the 6-4, 235-pounder stay fit and fabulous for games such as his ❋ Unknown (2001)

Mary Alice is what I would call fanatical about temperance. ❋ Laura Lee Guhrke (1999)

But as these persons were generally called fanatical and visionary, he had not paid much attention to their strictures. ❋ Various (N/A)

In Baedeker, Hebron is still given a bad character, the Muslims of the place being called fanatical and violent. ❋ Israel Abrahams (1891)

Is not the very same concentration when applied to Christian work and living thought to be fanatical, which is welcomed with universal applause when it is directed to lower pursuits? ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)

It was foolishly supposed that their whole antipathy was against the institution of slavery; hence they were merely called fanatical abolitionists and quietly despised. ❋ Unknown (1865)

As soon as Crawford had his things away from Potlurg, satisfied the cup was nowhere among them, he made a statement of the case to a magistrate he knew; and so represented it, as the outcome of the hypocrisy of pietism, that the magistrate, hating everything called fanatical, at once granted him a warrant to apprehend Dawtie on the charge of theft. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

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