Synonyms for fanatic
fəˈnæt ɪkfa·nat·ic

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1. fanatic

   Synonyms:
   enthusiast, bigot, visionary, zealot

   Antonyms:
   skeptic, unbeliever, cynic

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1. fanatic, fiendadjective

   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"--Winston Churchill

   Synonyms:
   monster, daemon, fiend, ogre, devil, demon, daimon

   Antonyms:
   passionless

2. fanatic, fanatical, overzealous, rabidadjective

   marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea

   "rabid isolationist"

   Synonyms:
   fanatical, rabid, overzealous

   Antonyms:
   passionless

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1. fanaticnoun

   Synonyms:
   enthusiast (especially on religious subjects), visionary, zealot

2. fanaticadjective

   Synonyms:
   enthusiastic, visionary, wild, mad

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1. fanaticnoun

   Synonyms:
   extremist, visionary, zealot

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1. List of paraphrases for "fanatic":

   fanatical, zealot, bigoted, fanaticism

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1. Winston Churchill:

   A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

2. Wasel Abu Youssef:

   This rightist Israeli fanatic government is pursuing its criminal policy to kill Palestinians. The new regulations would mean more escalation, killings and crimes against our people.

3. Aldous Huxley:

   Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

4. Lord Billingsley:

   The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super personal force the Race, the Party, History, the proletariat, the Poor, and so on. These absolve him from evil, hence he may safely do anything in their service.

5. Matthias John:

   As a person I like him, he's a little bit of a fanatic. But he's not in my opinion a cheater or pretender. It is his personality -- that he's pushing hard and he expected everybody's pushing the same way.