fanatic

[US]/fəˈnætɪk/
[UK]/fəˈnætɪk/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. an enthusiastic devotee; a person with an extreme and uncritical enthusiasm or zeal; a person with strong, uncritical admiration or devotion
adj. showing excessive enthusiasm or zeal; uncritically enthusiastic; having or showing excessive and single-minded zeal

Example Sentences

He is a fanatic jogger.

his eyes had a fanatic iciness.

fanatics went straight from the hot room to take a cold plunge.

Except for religious fanatics and those ignorant of the process of embryonic development, nobody would believe that an undivided, feelingless glob of a cell is a person.

" "He's such a nice person but fanatic." So while we were tying our BTGs, thousands, tens of thousands of people were coming into the pandal for the evening program.

If fanatics who believe Muslim women should be imprisoned in their homes and gay people should be killed are insulted by my arguments, I don't resile from it.

Real-world Examples

So these people are not fanatics.

Source: IELTS Speaking Preparation Guide

I enjoy some sports, though I'm not a fanatic.

Source: Oxford University: IELTS Foreign Teacher Course

The Weasleys complained that Wood was becoming a fanatic, but Harry was on Wood's side.

Source: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

These people are fanatics in their beliefs.

Source: VOA Standard September 2013 Collection

" I was not a Bach fanatic, " he says of the baroque German composer.

Source: The Guardian Reading Selection

You have your casual fans, your fans, your hardcore fans, and then you have your fanatics.

Source: TED Talks (Video Version) Bilingual Selection

The government had just succeeded, with some difficulty, in reducing these independent fanatics to its rule.

Source: Around the World in Eighty Days

So, yeah, I am an ice cream fanatic.

Source: Idol speaks English fluently.

And listen to them and iterate that product until that fanatic loves it.

Source: Apple latest news

There is something of the fanatic about her.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

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