Evangelistic

//ɪˌvænd͡ʒəˈlɪstɪk// adj, slang

adj, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Pertaining to evangelism or evangelists; spreading the gospel.
  2. 2
    Pertaining to the Evangelical school.
  3. 3
    Characterised by enthusiasm and a desire to communicate belief. colloquial

    "I was pretty evangelistic about the merits of working in a small team."

Adjective
  1. 1
    marked by ardent or zealous enthusiasm for a cause wordnet
  2. 2
    relating to or promoting the preaching and dissemination of the Christian gospel wordnet

Example

More examples

"Regulatory bodies, like the people who comprise them, have a marked life cycle. In youth they are vigorous, aggressive, evangelistic, and even intolerant. Later they mellow, and in old age—after a matter of ten or fifteen years—they become, with some exceptions, either an arm of the industry they are regulating or senile."

Etymology

From evangelist + -ic.

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