fanatic
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
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- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause)
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject
Types & categories
- partizan hypernym
Related & opposite
- fanatic derivation
Sense 2 adjective
marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea
rabid isolationist
Related & opposite
- rabidity derivation
- fanaticism derivation
- fanatic derivation
- passionate similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | fanatic |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | partizan |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | rabidity |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | fanaticism |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | fanatic |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | passionate |