FANATICS Synonyms: 77 Similar and Opposite Words

fanatics

noun

plural of fanatic

as in lovers

a person with a strong and habitual liking for something football fanatics are pretty much booked up for weekends from Labor Day to Super Bowl Sunday

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as in partisans

one who is intensely or excessively devoted to a cause once he joined the movement, he became a fanatic

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Recent Examples of fanatics Modern farmhouse dwellers and cottagecore fanatics, take note. — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 6 Oct. 2026 Gut fanatics on social media have jumped in on the promise of poo. — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 5 Oct. 2026 Wessel said that most guests enjoy perusing, but some, namely the horror fanatics, come in looking for specific limited-run items such as a new Jason Voorhees Monster Energy drink. — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026 Slow Horses fanatics will recognize her as one of the veteran MI5 operatives stuck in the agency’s version of purgatory, known as Slough House. — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2026 Nineteen fanatics, acting in the name of Islam, killed 2,997 innocent men, women and children in New York City, in Washington, and on airplanes turned into weapons of mass murder. — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 11 Sep. 2026 The title references an Islamic hadith that is meant to shine a light on Ali’s character’s moral hypocrisies and the religious fanatics who surround him in the film. — John Ross, Vanity Fair, 10 Sep. 2026 The psycho fanatics have a microphone now, which was inconceivable 20 years ago. — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 10 Sep. 2026 Balancing single broadcasts for both dedicated fanatics and casual lookie-loos remains a challenge, particularly for companies like Netflix that don’t have a whole season to work with. — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 9 Sep. 2026

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Noun

In the visual, Karol and Mars portray lovers once again — and even share a dramatic, firework-spurring embrace at the end.

— Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2026
Withholding his feelings and observations from family and lovers while sharing them with the outside world, Chen traces variations of longing and desire.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of lovers

Noun

Eventually, Sinclair partisans took matters into their own hands by heckling the fake newsreels and disrupting screenings.

— Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 19 Sep. 2026
Harald paid tribute to the Norwegian partisans who had fought alongside the Soviets during World War II, helping to restore the memory of a segment of the population that had long been marginalized in the official narrative of the war.

— Stefania Conrieri, Vanity Fair, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of partisans

Noun

Bryan pushed back at the time, arguing that the song spoke to both sides of the aisle and urging fans not to let social media narratives divide them.

— Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 3 Oct. 2026
With choreography from frequent collaborator Sean Bankhead, the visuals felt like a return to form, one that fans had long been anticipating.

— Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of fans

Noun

More suckers may continue to appear for several years unless the stump is ground up or treated with tree stump killer.

— Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Sep. 2026
One was a regional distributor of garbage trucks, street sweepers, and sewer suckers for municipalities.

— Eric Zwick, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of suckers

Noun

The book is full of stories of villains, like the venomous heroin that took so many of Seattle’s crusaders as well as the music industry that never quite understood where Soundgarden belonged.

— Selena Fragassi, SPIN, 9 June 2026
The facility remains popular among anti-immigrant crusaders, and Attorney General Uthmeier’s campaign store sells Alligator Alcatraz bumper stickers, T-shirts, and caps.

— Eric Schlosser, The Atlantic, 4 June 2026

Definition of crusaders

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In the lobby living room, corporate execs type away on laptops while wine enthusiasts compare notes from a crop of nearby tasting rooms.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
There’s a new reason for music enthusiasts to make a pit stop at their local record store this Black Friday.

— Alicia Urrea, Billboard, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of enthusiasts

Noun

But elevating the whims of progressive activists and government bureaucrats above the wisdom of the marketplace has proven a costly mistake and undermined consumer choice.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2026
The Seattle-area activists appear undeterred by the sanctions.

— Hudson Crozier, The Washington Examiner, 4 Oct. 2026

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