fanatical

[ US /fəˈnætɪkəɫ/ ]
[ UK /fɐnˈætɪkə‍l/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea
    rabid isolationist
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How To Use fanatical In A Sentence

  • Israel has the better excuse, driven half mad by threats and wars and the suicide bombings of the Second Intifada; but a series of queasy concessions to the fanatical colonists who are sometimes miscalled "settlers" have deformed its politics from within. David Bromwich: Rules of Engagement from Baghdad to Gaza
  • My fanatical interest in bluegrass began when I was 9 years old," he wrote. UC Berkeley graduate with autism produces honors thesis on bluegrass music
  • Tiny in numbers and fanatical in zeal. The Sun
  • They are rather fanatical about lengthening their own lives and fending off death indefinitely.
  • Cockfighting (two roosters battling each other in a ring) commands a fanatical following.
  • A colporteur, known to me, when engaged selling Bibles in a Brazilian town, reports that the fanatical populace got his books and carried them, fastened and burning, at the end of blazing torches, while they tramped the streets, yelling: "Away with all false books! Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America
  • Having just completed an audacious leap from aircraft into the jaws of death, five hundred feet above Munsan-ni, against a numerically superior and fanatical force, we were ready to return to K-2 Airstrip at Taegu. Lafayette Keaton
  • Though he recognized the importance of luck, or providence as he usually called it, and opportunity, he saw his own political success as a product of his iron determination and fanatical belief in his mission.
  • My friend, Patrick, has always been a fanatical opponent of Mr. Lane ? ? s Radical Progressive Party.
  • He demurs: any movement of a certain size will attract people who are ‘a bit fanatical’ but ‘you're never going to agree with all of them’.
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