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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary en·thu·si·ast DATE 1570 : a person filled with enthusiasm: as a. one who is ardently attached to a cause, object, or pursuit a sports car enthusiast b. one who tends to become ardently absorbed in an interest Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7 enthusiast en·thu·si·ast / in5Wju:ziAst; NAmE -5Wu:- / noun~ (for / of sth) 1. a person who is very interested in sth and spends a lot of time doing it 热衷于…的人；热心者；爱好者: a football enthusiast 足球爱好者 an enthusiast of jazz 爵士乐爱好者 2. a person who approves of sth and shows enthusiasm for it 热烈支持者；热情赞成者: enthusiasts for a united Europe 热烈赞成建立统一欧洲的人 OLT enthusiast noun ⇨ fan Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged en·thu·si·ast \-zēˌast, -zēə̇st, -zēˌaa(ə)st\ noun (-s) Etymology: Greek enthousiastēs, from enthousiazein 1. : a person who is or believes himself to be inspired or possessed by a divine power or spirit < a society of enthusiasts dominated by the conviction that they were spirit-possessed — G.W.H.Lampe > 2. : a person who is visionary, extravagant, or excessively zealous in his religious views or emotions : fanatic < took to task mystics and enthusiasts whose faith transcended the bounds of reasonableness — Andrew Brown > 3. a. : a person who is ardently attached to a cause, object, or pursuit < a former mountain-climbing enthusiast — Current Biography > < an impassioned enthusiast for both literature and painting — Times Literary Supplement > b. : a person of an ardent enthusiastic cast of mind : one who tends to give himself completely to whatever engages his interest < we are a nation of enthusiasts — Oden Meeker > Synonyms: fanatic , zealot , bigot : enthusiast in early use may designate one claiming inspiration or showing such signs as rapture, madness, or marked emotionalism; now it is likely to indicate a person showing keen, ardent, or devoted interest < was not in the least an enthusiast, which literally means “possessed by God”. He was a casuist and a theorist — Francis Hackett > < he had been in his youth an enthusiast for liberty, and had hailed the dawn of the French Revolution — T.L.Peacock > < a chess enthusiast > < a sailing enthusiast > fanatic is often used hyperbolically for enthusiast < a baseball fanatic > It may suggest a mad or irrational devotion and concentration, with resolute determination and uncompromising fixity < a virtuous fanatic, regarding all ways as wrong but his own, and thinking all men who would not walk as he prescribed wicked as well as mistaken — J.A.Froude > < a utopia about which he was utterly dogmatic — which he explained to me with fanatic zeal — as dogmatic, as undeviating as the most rabid Communist — Carleton Beals > zealot applies to one showing ardent devotion to and vehement activity for protecting or furthering a cause < the reopening of village churches that had been closed by the action of local zealots — A.R.Williams > bigot applies to one blindly and obstinately devoted to his own creed or belief with stern, stiff-necked, dogged disdain, contempt, and intolerance of others < not that the modern bigot is any more tolerant or less cruel than her ancestors — G.B.Shaw > |
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