Definition of Fanatic

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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