A fanatic threw a bomb at the king's coach.
Source: tatoeba (19249)
Fanatic
//fəˈnæt.ɪk//
Synonyms for "fanatic" (207 found)
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Adjective(2 words)
Noun(1 words)
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2 entriesRelated terms
3 entriesdefined as
1 entriesderived
14 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
4 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
108 translations across 41 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- fanatikus adj (fanatical)
Arabic
4 entries- متعصب adj (fanatical)
- مُتَعَصِّب adj (fanatical)
- غَيُور noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
- مُتَعَصِّب noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- təəssübkeş noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
Belarusian
3 entries- фанаты́чны adj (fanatical)
- фана́тык noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
- фанаты́чка noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
Bulgarian
3 entries- фанати́чен adj (fanatical)
- фанати́к noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
- фанати́чка noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
Catalan
2 entries- fanàtic adj (fanatical)
- fanàtic noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 擁躉 /拥趸 noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
- 狂熱分子 /狂热分子 noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
Czech
2 entries- fanatik noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
- fanatička noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
Danish
2 entries- fanatisk adj (fanatical)
- fanatiker noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
Dutch
2 entries- fanatiek adj (fanatical)
- fanaat noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
Esperanto
2 entries- fanatika adj (fanatical)
- fanatikulo noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
Estonian
2 entries- fanaatiline adj (fanatical)
- fanaatik noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
Finnish
4 entries- fanaattinen adj (fanatical)
- kiihkeä adj (fanatical)
- kiihkomielinen adj (fanatical)
- fanaatikko noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
French
2 entries- fanatique adj (fanatical)
- fanatique noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
Galician
2 entries- fanática noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
- fanático noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
German
3 entries- fanatisch adj (fanatical)
- Fanatiker noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
- Fanatikerin noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
Greek
1 entries- φανατικός adj (fanatical)
Hungarian
2 entries- fanatikus adj (fanatical)
- fanatikus noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
Italian
4 entries- fanatico adj (fanatical)
- maniaco adj (fanatical)
- patito adj (fanatical)
- seguace adj (fanatical)
Japanese
3 entries- ファナーティック adj (fanatical)
- 熱狂者 noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
- 狂信者 noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
Kazakh
1 entries- тақуа noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
Korean
2 entries- 광신자 noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
- 열광자 noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
Latvian
2 entries- fanātisks adj (fanatical)
- fanātiķis noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
Lithuanian
2 entries- fanatiškas adj (fanatical)
- fanatikas noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
Macedonian
2 entries- фанатичен adj (fanatical)
- фанатик noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
Māori
2 entries- manawawera adj (fanatical)
- ngākau whiwhita adj (fanatical)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- fanatiker noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- fanatikar noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
Persian
3 entries- فناتیک adj (fanatical)
- فناتیک noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
- متعصب noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- fanatisch adj (fanatical)
Polish
4 entries- fanatyczny adj (fanatical)
- nawiedzony adj (showing evidence of possession by a god or demon)
- opętany adj (showing evidence of possession by a god or demon)
- fanatyczka noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
Portuguese
3 entries- fanático adj (fanatical)
- fanática noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
- fanático noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
Russian
4 entries- одержи́мый adj (showing evidence of possession by a god or demon)
- фанати́чный adj (fanatical)
- изувер noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
- фана́тик noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- fanàtičan adj (fanatical)
- фана̀тичан adj (fanatical)
- fanàtik noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
- фана̀тик noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
Slovak
3 entries- fanatický adj (fanatical)
- fanatik noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
- fanatička noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
Slovene
3 entries- fanatičen adj (fanatical)
- fanatik noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
- fanatičarka noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
Spanish
2 entries- fanático adj (fanatical)
- fanático noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
Swedish
2 entries- fanatisk adj (fanatical)
- fanatiker noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
Tamil
1 entries- வெறியன் noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
Turkish
4 entries- bağnaz adj (fanatical)
- fanatik adj (fanatical)
- fanatik noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
- mutaassıp noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
Ukrainian
4 entries- фанати́чний adj (fanatical)
- бузуві́р noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
- фана́тик noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
- фанати́чка noun (one who is zealously enthusiastic)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
Tom is a fitness fanatic.
Source: tatoeba (1093507)
He's a bread baking fanatic.
Source: tatoeba (1241227)
He's a science fiction fanatic.
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