Definition of Fanatic

Fanatic

Pertaining to, or indicating, fanaticism; extravagant in opinions; ultra; unreasonable; excessively enthusiastic, especially on religious subjects; as, fanatic zeal; fanatic notions.

A person affected by excessive enthusiasm, particularly on religious subjects; one who indulges wild and extravagant notions of religion.

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Fanatic Quotations

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Winston Churchill

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
Aldous Huxley

A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.
Aldous Huxley

Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.
William Butler Yeats

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
Alan Watts

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.
Emile M. Cioran

My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!
Etta James

A fanatic is one who sticks to his guns whether they're loaded or not.
Franklin P. Jones

I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.
Gloria Swanson

A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.
Dean Koontz

Fanatic is often the name given to people of action by people who are lazy.
Bryant H. McGill

A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
Finley Peter Dunne

I am not a fanatic about anything. I do what I can do when I've got the time.
Francesca Annis

I'm an action fanatic.
Noah Hathaway

They're getting more and more experience on what to expect, and the Hellboy audience is such a faithful and fanatic audience as I am, and you have to really be very open about what you do.
Guillermo del Toro

If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

I became a real free market fanatic. I'm probably less so now than even two or three years ago.
Esther Dyson

Well, maybe it has to do with the fact that I was a complete Hitchcock fanatic from age 9.
Armistead Maupin

I'm a Star Wars fanatic.
Matthew Vaughn

The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.
George Saintsbury

Overall, I think I'm in pretty good shape, but I'm not really someone that is gung-ho or a fitness fanatic.
Cobi Jones

Pauley Perrette: I was a criminal science fanatic and went to study it in college as well and I think that helped me on NCIS because I was comfortable with the language, I had studied criminal science in school for years.
Pauley Perrette

I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die - it's a major offence.
Clive Barker

I'm a horror movie fanatic.
Gina Philips

I'm a racehorse fanatic rather than a football fanatic.
Steve McManaman

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Fanatic Translations

fanatic in German is Fanatiker
fanatic in Italian is fanatico
fanatic in Norwegian is fanatisk, fanatiker
fanatic in Swedish is fanatiker, fanatisk

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