FANATICAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fanatical mean? 

• FANATICAL (adjective)
  The adjective FANATICAL has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: FANATICAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FANATICAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

fanatic; fanatical; overzealous; rabid

Context example:

rabid isolationist

Similar:

passionate (having or expressing strong emotions)

Derivation:

fanatic (a person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause))

 Context examples 

I answer that there was a great deal which was unreasoning and fanatical in the hatred which he bore my heir.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Martin told him that his hatred of the magazines was rabid, fanatical, and that his conduct was a thousand times more despicable than that of the youth who burned the temple of Diana at Ephesus.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)