(a.) Pertaining to, or indicating, fanaticism; extravagant in opinions; ultra; unreasonable; excessively enthusiastic, especially on religious subjects; as, fanatic zeal; fanatic notions.
(n.) A person affected by excessive enthusiasm, particularly on religious subjects; one who indulges wild and extravagant notions of religion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sadly, the Jewish fanatic who assassinated Rabin in 1995 achieved his broader aim of derailing the peace train.
(2) As extreme forms the two polarized radicals who now fanatically stylize the other as the enemy, will fight to the death their own denied opposite side psychodynamically.
(3) They were not oleophobe fanatics here to attack the Petrobras, nor Oil Firsters, here to kill him, his colleagues and all those who came to investigate or exploit, in their parlance, the visitations.
(4) Eritrea is gripped by a fanatical love for the sport.
(5) Yet they illegally invaded Iraq with Conservative support, killing hundreds of thousands of civilians and 179 British military personnel before handing much of the country over to fanatics.
(6) Inevitably at our rallies we unfortunately have some fanatics & we have tried our best to have them removed.” But it said it would abide by the singer’s request not to use his songs.
(7) The anti-Muslim fanatic said the three bombs would be followed by several shooting massacres, if he survived.
(8) Rumours swirl of a higher death toll, the use of poisonous gas and the body of a pregnant woman garrotted by pro-Ukraine fanatics.
(9) But the heir to the throne has at least done this debate one favour by demonstrating that not all climate change fanatics are lefties.
(10) As Isis’s international notoriety grows, so too may its unifying appeal to the fanatics and fundamentalists, the disaffected and the dispossessed, and the merely criminal of the Sunni Muslim world.
(11) The last major initiative - the Oslo process - began in 1992 with secret negotiations between Mr Arafat (then the exiled head of the PLO) and the then Israeli prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, who was later assassinated by a rightwing Jewish fanatic.
(12) This is not the first time that the Tory party has tried to appease its fanatics about Europe in an effort to resolve its dilemmas and failings.
(13) Rudisha was also congratulated by Frank Lampard, attending as a guest of Coe, but had to break it to the Chelsea midfielder that he was an Arsenal fanatic.
(14) Broadcaster and football fanatic Danny Baker parodied the BBC's instructions to Neville: "We've an idea tonight's match could get quite heated.
(15) What is going to happen to the thousands of Yazidis besieged on Mount Sinjar by the bloodthirsty fanatics of Islamic State, or to the ancient Christian communities being systematically driven out of their homes ?
(16) On 30 June, as the Brotherhood’s enemies protested against Morsi and portrayed the group as fanatics intent on creating an Iranian-style Islamic state, supporters had organised their own, smaller marches in support of the president.
(17) They are reflecting a move in public opinion which people like me who are Euro-fanatical have to admit is real.
(18) They are fleeing, perforce, the most awful conditions imaginable: a vicious, endless civil war that sees schools targeted with barrel bombs, communities assaulted with chemical weapons, and whole cities destroyed in a conflict between lawless jihadi fanatics and regime forces fighting for survival.
(19) That gin-obsessed burlesque and cupcake fanatic you've secretly had your eye on?
(20) In the "era of colourblindness" there's a nearly fanatical desire to cling to the myth that we as a nation have "moved beyond" race.
Monomaniac
Definition:
(n.) A person affected by monomania.
(a.) Alt. of Monomaniacal
Example Sentences:
(1) The only real obstacle is an electoral system that penalises smaller parties and Ukip's monomaniacal focus on the European Union – though the party can still exert powerful pressure on the political mainstream.
(2) And in former Labour strongholds across the north and Wales, the effective opposition will pass to Farage and his band of Westminster discards, monomaniacs and out-and-out racists.
(3) Will even the threat of collapse force Cameron to confront and beat his ageing, monomaniac MPs and activists?
(4) There's something of The Bridge on the River Kwai about Fitzcarraldo 's monomaniacal passion to bring opera to the jungle.
(5) Plurality of methods should be controlled by a holistic medical view, not to become monomaniac.
(6) Gaddafi's monomaniacal desire to influence African affairs has left criss-crossing scars across the continent.
(7) In 1943, before completing his degree, he was called up into the army, an experience he later claimed cured him of "monomaniacal literariness".
(8) As the head of an investigations unit, I was necessarily more of a monomaniac, seeing conspiracies when often – although not always – there were just cock-ups.
(9) There is a palpable good to be seen amidst the stench of apparent corruption at the News of the World and the Sun, which is that this corruption – that appears to infect not only newspapers but civil servants accused of taking bribes and police unhealthily close to journalists – was only brought to light by what I would describe as the monomaniac obsession of a print-journalist with an addictive personality.
(10) There is proof of its value reflected in the wild eyes of the political monomaniacs who would rip it up.
(11) Well a few weeks ago, when City University asked me for the title of this talk, I recklessly supplied the title "addicts, establishment lickspittles and paranoid monomaniacs".