What's the difference between enthusiastic and overzealous?

Enthusiastic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Enthusiastical
  • (n.) An enthusiast; a zealot.

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.

Overzealous


Definition:

  • (a.) Too zealous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Their brief was to eradicate cross-border raids by Palestinian fedayeen (guerrillas), yet many felt the overzealous Sharon was becoming a law unto himself.
  • (2) It is a measure of our concerns that the policing and security around protests could be overzealous, and it has to be stressed the trade union movement-led protest will be entirely peaceful."
  • (3) It said: "We decry this persecution of one of our own, one who commited [sic] no crime and is being targeted simply for his association, real or imagined, by overzealous feds who seek to cut off the head of an idea, a group which has no leader.
  • (4) In April 2008, overzealous Heathrow security officials frisked Shenouda while on his way to consecrating St George's Coptic Cathedral , Shephalbury Manor, Stevenage.
  • (5) The messages are littered with typos, apparently the result of overzealous autocorrect settings, said Carlos Marín, director of Milenio, in an accompanying editorial.
  • (6) When Trayvon Martin was shot to death by an overzealous neighborhood watchman in 2012, no one knew much about the American Legislative Exchange Council (Alec) and the kinds of laws they secretly push – including the now-infamous “stand-your-ground” laws that allow Americans to shoot first and ask questions later.
  • (7) The state's prosecution team, led by assistant state attorney Bernie de la Rionda, will attempt to portray Zimmerman, 29, as an overzealous, self-appointed custodian of his gated community who pursued, confronted, then shot a black youth in a hoodie whom he assumed was up to no good.
  • (8) Overzealous early feeding is to be avoided; protein- and energy-rich diets must be introduced gradually and sustained to provide the nutrients necessary for rapid catch-up growth.
  • (9) This study tests the hypothesis that overzealous administration of blood cardioplegic solution at reperfusion counteracts these benefits and can lead to a prevalence of depressed ventricular performance and mortality similar to that seen after normal blood reperfusion.
  • (10) However, liposuction is a procedure that requires conservatism because overzealous fat removal can generally leave unsightly permanent sequelae.
  • (11) Therefore monitoring of this serum marker may be suggested also in patient chronically treated with 1-thyroxine to avoid, if possible, overzealous therapy.
  • (12) Initial recognition of the problem led to reduced usage of MAOIs and overzealous food restrictions.
  • (13) Overzealous resuscitation of the severely malnourished patient may be associated with life-threatening complications.
  • (14) It does not matter whether Karzai deliberately stole the election or whether his overzealous supporters stuffed the ballot boxes.
  • (15) Grubby green fingers For small children, the magic of planting a seed and watching it grow (watch out for overzealous waterers) may even trump the CBeebies schedule.
  • (16) For decades, it provided affordable health insurance at cost price without private insurance providers extracting overzealous profit from Australians.
  • (17) He discusses the effectiveness of ethical codes, editorial policies, and research ethics committees in safeguarding human subjects from overzealous or unethical researchers.
  • (18) He seemed to have been as much a victim of overzealous security guards as me.
  • (19) While complete restoration of normal binocular function is rarely, if ever, achieved, anomalous binocular cooperation has many functional advantages over suppression or diplopia and should not be disturbed by overzealous treatment.
  • (20) In general, a cautionary theme is expressed regarding the utilization of various therapies, lest their overzealous clinical implementation jeopardizes the advancement of this highly promising field.

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