(n.) One moved or actuated by enthusiasm; as: (a) One who imagines himself divinely inspired, or possessed of some special revelation; a religious madman; a fanatic. (b) One whose mind is wholly possessed and heated by what engages it; one who is influenced by a peculiar; fervor of mind; an ardent and imaginative person.
Example Sentences:
(1) The new Somali government has enthusiastically embraced the new deal and created a taskforce, bringing together the government, lead donors (the US, UK, EU, Norway and Denmark), the World Bank and civil society.
(2) The Nazi extermination of Jews in Lithuania (aided enthusiastically by local Lithuanians) was virtually total.
(3) Since then, Republican activists and enthusiasts have been energised and polls have tightened.
(4) Life exists in the noisy grey bits between a 'no' and full, enthusiastic consent.
(5) People like me argued that's an analytical error, that the most enthusiastic deepeners will be the new member states, and we were three-quarters right.
(6) So when he came to tell me, he said, "Don't get too enthusiastic, it has nothing to do with your abilities, it's to do with the fact that they have just raised the expatriate allowances."
(7) In contrast, we are less enthusiastic about thrombolytic therapy for distal small vessel thrombosis or embolism because complete clot lysis was achieved in only one of five patients.
(8) He has opinions on everything, and he hurls them at you so enthusiastically, so ferociously, that before long you feel battered.
(9) Netanyahu can be expected to enthusiastically support a tougher Trump line .
(10) The new defence minister, Augustin Bizimana, enthusiastically carried on arming the Interahamwe.
(11) The project provided experiential learning and interdisciplinary interactions that were enthusiastically received by the students.
(12) Russia was less enthusiastic about an area out of reach of its bombers, insisting on fighters going one way and civilians the other.
(13) And it has proved too forgiving of welfare abuse, too obsessed with universal human rights, and too enthusiastic about immigration.
(14) Nadella pleases ValueAct – see this enthusiastic statement today – which has been until now Microsoft's biggest critic.
(15) He found Margaret Thatcher far more enthusiastic and he was invited to a Downing Street reception where he met the chairman of a small City bank.
(16) It positioned Labour much more to the left, David Cameron's Tories a little more to the right, and the Liberal Democrats as the sole enthusiasts for a previously overcrowded centre.
(17) Sakowicz, witness to tens of thousands of murders at the Ponar (Paneriai) site outside Vilnius, recorded accurately that most of the killers were enthusiastic locals.
(18) He says the president is ready to embrace the results "enthusiastically" and accept the will of the people.
(19) However visitors to benm.at – an iPhone and iPod touch enthusiasts' website – can download a profile that instantly activates the tethering system free of charge.
(20) This use of MR imaging has been enthusiastically accepted by orthopedic surgeons, and the assessment of musculoskeletal trauma has emerged as one of the most commonly utilized applications of this diagnostic method.
Fiend
Definition:
(n.) An implacable or malicious foe; one who is diabolically wicked or cruel; an infernal being; -- applied specifically to the devil or a demon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Punks, poets, painters, dropouts, drug fiends, drag queens - all have been welcome at the Chelsea hotel.
(2) As the 10th-century Nine Herbs Charm put it, "finule" defends "against a fiend's hand and against trick, against witchcraft of vile creatures".
(3) The service is likely to excite gadget fiends and those hoping to reduce their gas and electricity bills.
(4) September 2, 2013 11.48am BST Here's our report on Gareth Bale's medical , during which (if he's anything like the rest of us) he'll have had that awkward internal conversation in which you calculate the number of alcohol units you really consume per week then attempt to come up with a number to tell the doctor that seems a) vaguely realistic, b) not too far from the truth but c) doesn't make you look like the boggle-eyed booze fiend you really are.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest I knew a girl named Nikki I guess you could say she was a sex fiend I met her in a hotel lobby Masturbating with a magazine She said how'd you like to waste some time?
(6) McCarley's 1977 arguments for the determining the significance of the pontine dream generator may have been anticipated by McCay's 1905 Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend in which, at the end of each very Freudian nightmare, the dreamer wakes and swears off eating welsh rarebits as if they caused all his unconscious images.
(7) Player ratings: Go on, get judging you heartless fiends .
(8) Which is why those canny fiends in Fifa refuse to introduce technology, in my opinion.
(9) The problems with the cocoa crop in west Africa aren't just a worry for chocolate fiends like me.
(10) The Mona Lisa would certainly have been a key target for Nazi art hunters: the ERR, Hitler himself, and the art fiend and Nazi number two, Hermann Göring.
(11) Found in both his fiction and his letters, terms such as "posish", "eggs and b", and "f i h s" ("fiend in human shape") create a clubby feeling of intimacy between writer and reader.
(12) You wade your way through questions designed by some fiend with a Ph.D in trick questions.
(13) London, New York, California, Berlin, Paris 1899-1975 Dear Willyum, Snorkles and Denis, Fiend of me boyhood, here's some dread news.
(14) And I was throwing up all the time and I hate throwing up.” Jones says she was never really into cocaine and couldn’t understand how she ended up with a “coke fiend” reputation.
(15) "There are people in the street at the moment, people watching this programme, people think Chris Rennard was some sort of sexual fiend like Jimmy Savile.
(16) The image of methadone is based on both misinformation about treatment and the user's contrasting of a treatment status with the stereotypic ideal of the "righteous dope fiend."
(17) Like King Lear, the president feels the fangs of ingratitude, the marble-hearted fiend, more keenly than anything else.
(18) So where can non-consumerist yoga fiends purchase $98 fitness pants now?