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| Main Entry: | enthusiast |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person active in interest |
| Synonyms: | addict, admirer, aficionado, believer, buff, bug*, bum*, devotee, eccentric, fan, fanatic, follower, freak, habitué, lover, maniac, nut*, optimist, participant, partisan, supporter, votary, worshiper, zealot, monomaniac, rooter |
| Antonyms: | critic, detractor, pessimist |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | addict |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who has compulsion toward |
| Synonyms: | activity, buff, devotee, enthusiast, fan, fanatic, fiend, follower, freak*, habitué, hound*, junkie*, nut, practitioner, zealot, often injurious aficionado |
| Notes: | an edict is a formal or authoritative proclamation; an addict is someone who is physiologically dependent on a substance or someone who is a devoted supporter or fan |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | adherent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | supporter or follower |
| Synonyms: | advocate, aficionado, backer, believer, devotee, disciple, enthusiast, fan, hanger-on, card-carrying member |
| Main Entry: | admirer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who holds someone in high regard |
| Synonyms: | adherent, beau, believer, booster, boyfriend, buff, bug*, cat*, devotee, disciple, enthusiast, fan, fiend*, follower, freak*, girlfriend, groupie*, hound*, junkie*, lover, nut*, partisan, patron, suitor, supporter, sweetheart, worshiper, fancier, rooter, swain, wooer |
| Antonyms: | critic, enemy, opponent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | aficionado |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fan |
| Synonyms: | connoisseur, devotee, enthusiast, fanatic |
| Main Entry: | bigot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intolerant, prejudiced person |
| Synonyms: | chauvinist, diehard, doctrinaire, enthusiast, extremist, fanatic, fiend, maniac, partisan, puritan, racist, sectarian, stickler, zealot, dogmatist, monomaniac, opinionated person, persecutor, segregationist, sexist, superpatriot |
| Antonyms: | humanitarian, liberal, tolerator |
| Main Entry: | devotee |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ardent supporter; fan |
| Synonyms: | addict, adherent, admirer, aficionado, amateur, believer, booster, buff, disciple, enthusiast, fanatic, fiend, follower, groupie, habitué, junkie, lover, supporter, votary, fancier, rooter, votarient |
| Antonyms: | adversary, antagonist, enemy |
| Main Entry: | disciple |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | believer, follower |
| Synonyms: | adherent, apostle, attendant, booster, buff, bug*, cohort, convert, devotee, enthusiast, fan, fanatic, fiend, freak, groupie, hound*, junkie*, learner, nut*, partisan, proselyte, pupil, satellite, student, supporter, votary, witness, zealot, catechumen, rooter, sectary, sectator |
| Antonyms: | god |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fanatic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person overenthusiastic about an interest |
| Synonyms: | addict, bigot, bug*, crank*, crazy, demon, devotee, enthusiast, extremist, fiend*, fool, freak, maniac, militant, nut*, radical, visionary, zealot, activist, monomaniac, ultraist |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | idealist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who holds fancies in mind, who believes in perfection |
| Synonyms: | dreamer, enthusiast, escapist, optimist, radical, romantic, seer, stargazer, utopian, visionary, Platonist, romancer, romanticist, theorizer, transcendentalist |
| Antonyms: | realist, pragmatist |
| Main Entry: | maniac |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is crazy, overenthusiastic |
| Synonyms: | bigot, crackpot*, enthusiast, fan, fanatic, fiend, flake*, freak, kook*, loony*, lunatic, madperson, nut*, psycho, psychopath, screwball*, zealot, Section 8, bedlamite, fruitcake, loon, nutcase, schizoid |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | proponent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who advocates, supports cause |
| Synonyms: | advocate, backer, champion, defender, enthusiast, exponent, friend, partisan, patron, protector, second, spokesperson, subscriber, supporter, expounder, seconder, upholder, vindicator |
| Antonyms: | enemy, foe, opponent |
| Main Entry: | visionary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who dreams, is idealistic |
| Synonyms: | dreamer, enthusiast, idealist, mystic, prophet, romantic, seer, stargazer, utopian, zealot, Don Quixote, castle-builder, daydreamer, romancer, theorist |
| Antonyms: | realist |
| Main Entry: | booster |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | supporter |
| Synonyms: | backer, enthusiast, patron, promoter, sponsor, rooter |
| Main Entry: | bon vivant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | one who lives well |
| Synonyms: | aficionado, connoisseur, enthusiast, epicure, epicurean, gastronome, gourmand, gourmet, connoisseur of food, connoisseur of wine, gastronomist, refined palate, social person |
| Main Entry: | fiend |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person overenthusiastic about interest |
| Synonyms: | addict, aficionado, bigot, devotee, enthusiast, fan, fanatic, freak, maniac, nut*, votary, zealot, monomaniac, votarist |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | freak |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person enthused about something |
| Synonyms: | addict, aficionado, buff, bug*, devotee, enthusiast, fan, fanatic, fiend*, maniac, nut*, zealot |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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