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Definition of Fanatical
1. Adjective. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea. "Rabid isolationist"
Similar to: Passionate
Derivative terms: Fanatic, Fanatism, Fanatic, Rabidity, Rabidness
Definition of Fanatical
1. a. Characteristic of, or relating to, fanaticism; fanatic.
Definition of Fanatical
1. Adjective. having an extreme, irrational zeal or enthusiasm for a specific cause ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fanatical
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fanatical
Literary usage of Fanatical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (1900)
"CHAPTER XII Causes of fanatical Enthusiasm in Some Americans A LTHOUGH the desire
of acquiring the good things of ^-^ this ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1909)
"The energy displayed after the event by the two Powers produced a salutary
impression on the ultra-fanatical population of Jedda; and nearly forty ..."
3. China and the Allies by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1901)
"Within the Imperial precincts the fanatical troops of Tung- fu-Hsiang had barricaded
themselves, their General, shortly before the fall of Pekin, ..."
4. General History of the Christian Religion and Church by August Neander, Joseph Torrey (1851)
"... a fanatical hatred of heretics ; an exaggerated opinion of the exclusive ...
a fanatical separative This therefore was the only case. ..."
5. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1778)
"A Calm Enquiry into rational and fanatical Di/ention ... all union of fenti- ment
with thole fanatical ..."
6. Church History by Johann Heinrich Kurtz (1890)
"During this age various fanatical sects sprang up. ... much trouble to the Lutheran
clergy in the beginning of the century by their fanatical enthusiasm, ..."
7. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... too proud to work, and extremely fanatical. Many of them build their towns in
the water, with movable bamboo bridges connected with the snore. ..."
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