All 5 Uses of
fanatic
in
Oryx and Crake
- And too much envy and fanaticism and bad, faith.†
p. 28.2
- Anyway, he said, there'd been an incident only a few weeks before they'd moved in — some fanatic, a woman, with a hostile bioform concealed in a hairspray bottle.†
p. 53.6 *
- Things escalated after a cell of crazed anti-Happicuppa fanatics bombed the Lincoln Memorial, killing five visiting Japanese schoolkids that were part of a Tour of Democracy.†
p. 181.1fanatics = people motivated by extreme enthusiasm for a cause
- The security going into Watson-Crick was very thorough, unlike the sloppy charade that took place at Martha Graham: the fear must have been that some fanatic would sneak in and blow up the best minds of the generation, thus dealing a crippling blow to something or other.†
p. 197.1
- Hostile bioforms, toxin attacks, fanatics.†
p. 298.2fanatics = people motivated by extreme enthusiasm for a cause
Definition:
a person motivated by extreme enthusiasm (as for a cause) -- sometimes to a fault
or:
extremely enthusiastic -- sometimes to a fault
or:
extremely enthusiastic -- sometimes to a fault