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Definitions for fanatical
fəˈnæt ɪ kəlfa·nat·i·cal

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. fanatic, fanatical, overzealous, rabidadjective

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

    "rabid isolationist"

Wiktionary

  1. fanaticaladjective

    having an extreme, irrational zeal or enthusiasm for a specific cause

Wikipedia

  1. fanatical

    Fanaticism (from the Latin adverb fānāticē [fren-fānāticus; enthusiastic, ecstatic; raging, fanatical, furious]) is a belief or behavior involving uncritical zeal or an obsessive enthusiasm.

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  1. fanatical

    Fanatical refers to having an extreme or obsessive enthusiasm, zeal, or passion for something. It can also describe behavior or beliefs that show extreme dedication or uncritical devotion to a particular cause, person, or ideology, often to the point of irrationality.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Fanaticaladjective

    characteristic of, or relating to, fanaticism; fanatic

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of fanatical in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of fanatical in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of fanatical in a Sentence

  1. Albert Einstein:

    The fanatical atheists...are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who—in their grudge against the traditional 'opium of the people'—cannot bear the music of the spheres.

  2. Fox News:

    When you look at this party, today's Democratic Party, it is controlled by fanatical ideologues who hate freedom.

  3. Clemens Binninger:

    Gerhard Schindler said. But German secret service officials have observed a disturbing new trend that combines the two threats. Radicals already in Germany are increasingly trying to penetrate the shelters that hold desperate and increasingly volatile refugees who made it to Germany. They have to be careful, because indigenous Islamists and Salafists could try to take advantage of the desperation of the refugees and to achieve their fanatical ideas, said Clemens Binninger, a member of Parliament. Much of the fear has been driven by the fact that ISIS has clearly stated its plan to send jihadists to Western Europe amid the refugee wave. Fighters with valid documents from European Union countries can enter and exit without being detected, and ISIS has reportedly seized hundreds of Syrian blank passports. As a result, European jihadists could be returning amid the wave, and fighters from Syria and Iraq could be sneaking into Western Europe under humanitarian cover, where they can slip into society using doctored documents. Assassins of Paris, of Brussels and the train between Paris and Amsterdam were either radicalized European Muslims or European jihadists, returned from the battlefields, they're making contact with the network of political Salafists, which have been previously recruited to ISIS. Turkey, a European Union member which has taken in an estimated 2 million refugees from Syria, blasted European nations for turning away refugees and making the continent a.

  4. Eric Hoffer:

    Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.

  5. Ezequiel Barrenechea:

    The people that travel to Galapagos are people who are almost fanatical about ecology, that kind of tourist is the first to appreciate this project because they travel to Galapagos to feel the ecological side of the world. Part of the requirement of our certification is to teach people about what we've built, how we've built it and why. People will love it.

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