Exuberant vs Fanatic - What's the difference?
exuberant | fanatic |
(of people) Very high-spirited; extremely energetic and enthusiastic.
* 1882 , , "The Lady or the Tiger?":
* 1961 , , Catch-22 :
(of things that grow) Abundant, luxuriant, profuse, superabundant.
* 1972 , Ken Lemmon, "Restoration Work at Studley Royal," Garden History , vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 22:
Fanatical.
* T. Moore
(obsolete) Showing evidence of possession by a god or demon; frenzied, overzealous.
As adjectives the difference between exuberant and fanatic
is that exuberant is exuberant while fanatic is fanatical.As a noun fanatic is
a person who is zealously enthusiastic for some cause, especially in religion.exuberant
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Adjective
(en adjective)- He was a man of exuberant fancy, and, withal of an authority so irresistible that, at his will, he turned his varied fancies into facts.
- She was a tall, earthy, exuberant girl with long hair and a pretty face.
- The County Architect's Department is starting to pleach trees to open up these vistas, now almost hidden by the exuberant growth.
References
* Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989. * Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary , 1987-1996. ----fanatic
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Alternative forms
* fanatick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- But Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fast / To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.