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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

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

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

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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