FANATIC
\fɐnˈatɪk], \fɐnˈatɪk], \f_ɐ_n_ˈa_t_ɪ_k]\
Definitions of FANATIC
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A person affected by excessive enthusiasm, particularly on religious subjects; one who indulges wild and extravagant notions of religion.
By Oddity Software
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A person affected by excessive enthusiasm, particularly on religious subjects; one who indulges wild and extravagant notions of religion.
By Noah Webster.
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One who is wildly extravagant in his views, especially on religious subjects.
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Characterized by wild enthusiasm; visionary.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A person affected by excessive enthusiams, particularly on religious subjects; one who indulges wild and extravagant notions of religion. "They are fanaticks all atheists being that blind goddess Nature's fanaticks."-Cudworth. "There is a new word, coined within few months, called fanatics, which, by the close stickling thereof, seemeth well cut out and proportioned to signify what is meant thereby, even the sectaries of our age."-Fuller, 1660.
By Daniel Lyons
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An extravagant enthusiast.
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Extravagant and enthusiastic, esp. in religion.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
