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

synonyms: fanatic, overzealous, rabid.

Roget 984: heterodox, heretical; unorthodox, unscriptural, uncanonical; antiscriptural^†, apocryphal; unchristian, antichristian^†; schismatic, recusant, iconoclastic; sectarian; dissenting, dissident; secular &c., (lay) 997.    pagan; heathen, heathenish; ethnic, ethnical; gentile, paynim^†; pantheistic, polytheistic.    Judaical, Mohammedan, Brahminical^†, Buddhist etc. n.; Romish, Protestant etc. n.. bigoted etc. (prejudiced) 481, (obstinate) 606; superstitious etc. (credulous) 486; fanatical; idolatrous etc. 991; visionary etc. (imaginative) 515.    ... show more

Roget 988: impious; irreligious etc. 989; desecrating etc. v.; profane, irreverent, sacrilegious, blasphemous.    un-hallowed, un-sanctified, un-regenerate; hardened, perverted, reprobate.    hypocritical etc. (false) 544; canting, pietistical^†, sanctimonious, unctuous, pharisaical, overrighteous^†, righteous over much.    bigoted, fanatical; priest-ridden.    ... show more

Roget 825: excitable, easily excited, in an excitable state; high-strung; irritable etc. (irascible) 901; impatient, intolerant.    feverish, febrile, hysterical; delirious, mad, moody, maggoty-headed.    unquiet, mercurial, electric, galvanic, hasty, hurried, restless, fidgety, fussy; chafing etc. v.. startlish^†, mettlesome, high-mettled^†, skittish.    vehement, demonstrative, violent, wild, furious, fierce, fiery, hot-headed, madcap.    overzealous, enthusiastic, impassioned, fanatical; rabid etc. (eager) 865.    rampant, clamorous, uproarious, turbulent, tempestuous, tumultuary^†, boisterous.    impulsive, impetuous, passionate; uncontrolled, uncontrollable; ungovernable, irrepressible, stanchless^†, inextinguishable, burning, simmering, volcanic, ready to burst forth, volatile.    excited, exciting etc. 824.    ... show more

Roget 821: feeling etc. v.; sentient; sensuous; sensorial, sensory; emotive, emotional; of feeling, with feeling etc. n.. warm, quick, lively, smart, strong, sharp, acute, cutting, piercing, incisive; keen, keen as a razor; trenchant, pungent, racy, piquant, poignant, caustic.    impressive, deep, profound, indelible; deep felt, home felt, heartfelt; swelling, soul-stirring, deep-mouthed, heart-expanding, electric, thrilling, rapturous, ecstatic.    earnest, wistful, eager, breathless; fervent; fervid; gushing, passionate, warm-hearted, hearty, cordial, sincere, zealous, enthusiastic, glowing, ardent, burning, red-hot, fiery, flaming; boiling over.    pervading, penetrating, absorbing; rabid, raving, feverish, fanatical, hysterical; impetuous etc. (excitable) 825.    impressed with, moved with, touched with, affected with, penetrated with, seized with, imbued with etc. 82; devoured by; wrought up etc. (excited) 824; struck all of a heap; rapt; in a quiver etc. n.; enraptured etc. 829.    ... show more

Roget 503: insane, mad, lunatic, loony [Coll.]; crazy, crazed, aliene^†, non compos mentis; not right, cracked, touched; bereft of reason; all possessed, unhinged, unsettled in one's mind; insensate, reasonless, beside oneself, demented, daft; phrenzied^†, frenzied, frenetic; possessed, possessed with a devil; deranged, maddened, moonstruck; shatterpated^†; mad-brained, scatter brained, shatter brained, crackbrained; touched, tetched [Coll.]; off one's head.    [behavior suggesting insanity] maniacal; delirious, lightheaded, incoherent, rambling, doting, wandering; frantic, raving, stark staring mad, stark raving mad, wild-eyed, berserk; delusional, hallucinatory.    [behavior somewhat resembling insanity] corybantic^†, dithyrambic; rabid, giddy, vertiginous, wild; haggard, mazed; flighty; distracted, distraught; depressed; agitated, hyped up; bewildered etc. (uncertain) 475.    mad as a March hare, mad as a hatter; of unsound mind etc. n.; touched in one's head, wrong in one's head, not right in one's head, not in one's right mind, not right in one's wits, upper story; out of one's mind, out of one's wits, out of one's skull [Coll.], far gone, out of one's senses, out of one's wits; not in one's right mind.    fanatical, infatuated, odd, eccentric; hypped^†, hyppish^†; spaced out [Coll.].    imbecile, silly, etc. 499.    ... show more

Roget 481: misjudging etc. v.; ill-judging, wrong-headed; prejudiced etc. v.; jaundiced; shortsighted, purblind; partial, one-sided, superficial.    narrow-minded, narrow-souled^†; mean-spirited; confined, illiberal, intolerant, besotted, infatuated, fanatical, entete [Fr.], positive, dogmatic, conceited; opinative, opiniative^†; opinioned, opinionate, opinionative, opinionated; self-opinioned, wedded to an opinion, opini=atre; bigoted etc. (obstinate) 606; crotchety, fussy, impracticable; unreasonable, stupid etc. 499; credulous etc. 486; warped.    misjudged etc. v.. ... show more

Polish: fanatyczny, nawiedzony