The meaning of Fanatic

noun

A person who campaigns to bring about political or social change.

Usage examples:

Activists have been calling for change

adjective

Campaigning to bring about political or social change.

Usage examples:

Activist groups around the world are organizing solidarity events

noun

A person who believes strongly in political or social change and takes part in activities such as public protests to try to make this happen

Usage examples:

He's been a trade union/party activist for many years., an animal rights activist

noun

Someone who supports a particular party, person, or set of ideas.

Usage examples:

He was a strong adherent of monetarism

adjective

Sticking fast to an object or surface.

Usage examples:

The eggs have thick sticky shells to which debris is often adherent

noun

Someone who strongly supports an idea, plan, person, etc.

Usage examples:

She has been an adherent of home schooling for years.

noun

A person who offers an argument in defence of something controversial.

Usage examples:

Critics said he was an apologist for colonialism

noun

A person who supports a particular belief or political system, especially an unpopular one, and speaks or writes in defence of it

Usage examples:

Communism and its apologists, there are few apologists for the old system.

noun

A person who is obstinately or unreasonably attached to a belief, opinion, or faction, especially one who is prejudiced against or antagonistic towards a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group.

Usage examples:

Don't let a few small-minded bigots destroy the good image of the city

noun

A person who has strong, unreasonable ideas, esp. about race or religion, and who thinks anyone who does not have the same beliefs is wrong

Usage examples:

Some of the townspeople are bigots who call foreigners terrible names., he was removed from the com…

noun

A person displaying excessive or prejudiced support for their own cause or group, in particular a man prejudiced against women.

Usage examples:

She now reports to a new boss, who is a chauvinist

adjective

A person displaying aggressive or exaggerated patriotism.

adjective

Believing or showing an unreasonable belief that your own country or race is the best or most important

Usage examples:

The crowd was enthusiastically singing chauvinistic patriotic songs., it is a deeply chauvinist com…

verb

Turn the crankshaft of (an internal combustion engine) in order to start the engine.

Usage examples:

The starter motor struggled to crank the engine

noun

A part of an axle or shaft bent out at right angles, for converting reciprocal to circular motion and vice versa.

Usage examples:

A long con rod which acts as a longer lever on the crank

noun

An eccentric person, especially one who is obsessed by a particular subject.

Usage examples:

When he first started to air his views, they labelled him a crank

noun

A person who is very interested in and enthusiastic about someone or something.

Usage examples:

A devotee of lewis carroll

noun

A person who strongly opposes change or who continues to support something in spite of opposition.

Usage examples:

A diehard yankees fan

adjective

Unwilling to change or give up your ideas or ways of behaving, even when there are good reasons to do so

Usage examples:

A diehard conservative

noun

A person who believes too strongly that their personal opinions or beliefs are correct

noun

A person who holds extreme political or religious views, especially one who advocates illegal, violent, or other extreme action.

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Political extremists

noun

Someone who has an opinion or ideas that seem unreasonable to most people

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Political extremism

noun

A very unusual and unexpected event or situation.

Usage examples:

The teacher says the accident was a total freak

verb

Behave or cause to behave in a wild and irrational way, typically because of the effects of extreme emotion or drugs.

Usage examples:

He freaked out and smashed the place up

adjective

Extremely unusual or unlikely

Usage examples:

She died in a freak automobile accident., a freak midsummer hailstorm caught us all by surprise., m…

noun

A person exhibiting extremely wild or violent behaviour.

Usage examples:

When he sits in front of a playstation he transforms into a karate-choppin' maniac

combining form

Forming nouns corresponding to words ending in -mania.

Usage examples:

Kleptomaniac

noun

A person who has an unusually strong interest in an activity or subject

Usage examples:

My brother is a maniac when it comes to football., a homicidal maniac

adjective

Favouring confrontational or violent methods in support of a political or social cause.

Usage examples:

The army are in conflict with militant groups

noun

A militant person.

Usage examples:

Militants became increasingly impatient of parliamentary manoeuvres

adjective

Active, determined, and often willing to use force

Usage examples:

A militant group/leader, security forces made it impossible for militants to carry out their threats.

noun

A strong supporter of a party, cause, or person.

Usage examples:

Partisans of the exiled stuarts

adjective

Prejudiced in favour of a particular cause.

Usage examples:

Newspapers have become increasingly partisan

adjective

Involving loyal support of a person, principle, or political party

Usage examples:

Partisan politics, the political parties are more divided by partisanship than ever before.

adjective

(especially of change or action) relating to or affecting the fundamental nature of something; far-reaching or thorough.

Usage examples:

A radical overhaul of the existing regulatory framework

noun

A person who advocates thorough or complete political or social change, or a member of a political party or section of a party pursuing such aims.

Usage examples:

The party has not tried to disguise its new deregulatory approach, which is causing unease among pa…

adjective

Believing or expressing the belief that there should be great or extreme social, economic, or political change

Usage examples:

White’s political orientation was decidedly liberal, but hardly radical., during bad economic times…

adjective

Denoting or concerning a sect or sects.

Usage examples:

The city's traditional sectarian divide

noun

A member of a sect.

Usage examples:

A jewish sectarian who preached the redemption of the gentiles

adjective

Relating to a sect, or happening between sects

Usage examples:

Sectarian fighting

noun

An extremist.

Usage examples:

Ultras in the animal rights movement

prefix

To an extreme degree; very.

Usage examples:

Ultramicroscopic

prefix

Extreme or extremely

Usage examples:

Ultraconservative, ultramodern

adjective

Thinking about or planning the future with imagination or wisdom.

Usage examples:

A visionary leader

noun

A person with original ideas about what the future will or could be like.

Usage examples:

He is a visionary keen on policy-making

noun

A person who is able to imagine how a country, society, industry, etc., will or should develop in the future and to plan in a suitable way

Usage examples:

She was a social reformer, a true visionary.

adjective

Strange or silly

Usage examples:

The idea is exciting for those who believe in it, wackadoodle for those who don't., he may be a wac…

noun

A person who is fanatical and uncompromising in pursuit of their religious, political, or other ideals.

Usage examples:

He says there have always been religious zealots, but modern technology has given them a lethal cap…

noun

A person who has very strong opinions about something, and tries to make other people have them too

Usage examples:

A religious zealot