(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.
Thrall
Definition:
(n.) A slave; a bondman.
(n.) Slavery; bondage; servitude; thraldom.
(n.) A shelf; a stand for barrels, etc.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a thrall; in the condition of a thrall; bond; enslaved.
(v. t.) To enslave.
Example Sentences:
(1) Britain's political class, Balls included, remains in thrall to banking ideology.
(2) In the thrall of social media and smartphones, we are drip-fed a steady supply of Instagram-filtered intimacy – and in this world, negative emotions and loneliness are taboo.
(3) Beyond the sumptuous lifestyle spreads in glossies or the gift-strewn shop windows at Harrods and Selfridges, and Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop website , shows like Downton Abbey keep us in thrall to the idea of moolah, mansions and autocratic power.
(4) King Salman is seen in some quarters as weak and ailing, and in thrall to his hawkish son, the defence minister Prince Mohammed bin Salman .
(5) The actor Michael Sheen, best known for playing Tony Blair in a series of TV dramas and the award-winning film The Queen, has delivered a passionate defence of the NHS against “bland” politicians in thrall to the market from both Conservative and Labour parties.
(6) By and large, there is agreement with his support for Miliband's reform plans, but also plenty of loud reiterations of a script that McCluskey and his people use a lot: too many of the "apparatchiks" who run the party machinery are still in thrall to the ideas of Blair.
(7) We are always told by those in thrall to him that much of what Trump says is metaphor.
(8) But an international landscape increasingly dominated by nationalist firebrands, conservative zealots and policy makers in thrall to austerity economics is always apt to waste opportunities.
(9) The defence, by contrast, aim to paint Tsarnaev as weak; a stoned teenager, in thrall to Tamerlan; a follower.
(10) In hindsight, I should have been aware that these media organisations were run by intellectual pygmies who failed to understand the nature of the Work and were themselves in thrall to corporate and government interests.
(11) But the former New York senator was also at pains to position herself as a supporter of union favourites such as social security and she reiterated recent criticism of lax tax treatment for the very wealthy – populist themes intended to prove to sceptics on the left of the party that Clinton is not in thrall to Wall Street donors.
(12) I worked very hard over the years not to be in thrall to attitudes that were confining or snobbish.
(13) In the mild-mannered cadences that his supporters celebrate as the antidote to orthodox political posturing, he then expressed the disappointed socialist critique of modern British politics: it is too much in thrall to tall Tory tales about the economy, immigration, Europe, the benefits system.
(14) North Korea has launched a vitriolic attack on the South Korean president, comparing her to "crafty prostitute" in thrall to her "pimp" Barack Obama.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The world is currently in thrall to a fat Korean Psycho who is spouting anti-capitalist messages and blowing things up.
(16) But the Unite general secretary, Len McCluskey, accused the government of being "in thrall" to the business lobby and the right wing of the Conservative party.
(17) Goldman Sachs had “total control” of her; she was in thrall to a “global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped our country of its wealth and put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities”.
(18) I wish the Commission and ECB were less in thrall to the merchants of austerity, but that is not an argument for a system without reciprocal disciplines.
(19) If you attended the opening address by Angela Merkel or the private dinner in which Nobel laureate Leymah Gbowee held a group of financiers in thrall with her life story, you might think that fabulous, powerful women dominate Davos.
(20) A number of academy backers are so in thrall to the idea of schools-like-businesses and, perhaps, to their starry architects (who include Zaha Hadid and Norman Foster as well as Rogers) that they have signed off buildings with no outdoor play space, inadequate dining halls and nowhere for the whole school to gather.