Fanatical
[fə'nætɪkəl]
Definition
(a.) Characteristic of, or relating to, fanaticism; fanatic.
Typist: Mason
Synonyms and Synonymous
Enthusiastic, visionary, wild, mad.
Checked by Lionel
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See FANATICISM]
Editor: Warren
Examples
- She may, he thinks, have inspired her son with a fanatical hatred of Ammon Ra. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It became only a bitter fanatical struggle again in the eleventh century. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I answer that there was a great deal which was unreasoning and fanatical in the hatred which he bore my heir. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- It is the most fanatical Mohammedan purgatory out of Arabia. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Nobody's heart is in the work very long; nobody's but those fanatical and morbid guardians of morality who make it a life's specialty. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Public diversions have always been the objects of dread and hatred to all the fanatical promoters of those popular frenzies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Editor: Warren