Fanatics Synonyms and Antonyms

A person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause); --Winston Churchill
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. fiends
  2. maniacs
  3. enthusiasts
  4. crazies
  5. nuts
  6. devotees
  7. fans
  8. visionaries
  9. buffs
  10. radicals
  11. zealots
  12. extremists
  13. bugs
Overenthusiast
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. zealots
  2. enthusiasts
  3. votaries
  4. extremists
  5. sectaries
  6. devotees
Antonyms:
  1. unbelievers
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One who holds extreme views or advocates extreme measures
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. zealots
  2. revolutionists
  3. revolutionaries
  4. radicals
  5. extremists

Words Related to Fanatics

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Fanatics Sentence Examples

  • Punishment was also inflicted on the Hindostani Fanatics of Palosi.

  • In contrast to the fanatics, after a brief hesitation they threw millennarianism overboard, and along with it all other "opiniones Judaicae."

  • The Black Mountain tribes took no part in the general frontier rising of 1897, and after the disappearance of the Hindostani Fanatics they sank into comparative unimportance.

  • Fanatics sought death by insulting the magistrates or by breaking idols, and in their enthusiasm for martyrdom became self-centred and forgetful of their normal duty.

  • Kindred to this latter view was the position of sundry sects of English fanatics during the Commonwealth, who denied that an elect person sinned, even when committing acts in themselves gross and evil.

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