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adjective

fanatical

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

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Six example sentences with fanatical, each labelled with its topic.

  • He is fanatical about sourdough, weighing every gram of flour and keeping the starter at exactly twenty six degrees.

    Cooking

  • Her fanatical training schedule left no room for a birthday dinner that ran past eight in the evening.

    Fitness

  • Some collectors are fanatical about film stocks, driving three hours for a fridge of expired rolls nobody else wants.

    Photography

  • The club's fanatical supporters travel to every away game, and their drum section starts before the teams warm up.

    Basketball

  • A fanatical community keeps the twenty-year-old strategy game alive with patches the original studio never wrote.

    Gaming

  • Fanatical record collectors will pay a month's rent for a first pressing whose only difference is a misprinted label.

    Music

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