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Zealous Adjective Efforts Zeləs Adj 热心的 Clerk Toy

Front zealous
Pron ['zeləs]
Back 【zealous】
adj. 热心的
The clerk in the toy section of the department seems very zealous in pleasing the customers.
百货公司里玩具部门的售货员,似乎非常热心于取悦顾客。
Vocab
zealousmarked by active interest and enthusiasm

Use the adjective zealous as a way to describe eagerness or enthusiastic activity. If you are too zealous in your efforts to decorate the house with Christmas lights, you might cause a power outage for the whole neighborhood.

Zealous is the adjective for the noun zeal "eager partisanship"; the latter has a long e, but zealous has a short one: ZEL-uhs. It can have a slightly negative connotation, and people are sometimes described as "overzealous," meaning they try too hard. "Zealous" rhymes with "jealous" (and in fact they're from the same Greek word), but don't confuse them: a jealous person might be resentful of someone who makes zealous efforts to achieve success.

All forms of 'zealous' will appear on average once every 653 pages.
zeal
zealous
overzealous
zealously

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