🇬🇧🇨🇳 fanatical - 狂热的 : English Lesson

Meaning of "fanatical" ("狂热的"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

If you are fanatical about something, you don’t just like it—you are super, mega, over-the-top excited about it all the time. You talk about it nonstop, think about it constantly, and want to do it or be around it more than almost anything else. Other people might think you’re going a little too far, because it takes over your thoughts and actions so much.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

Our neighbor is so fanatical about his lawn that he apologizes to each blade of grass when he steps on it.

Our science teacher is fanatical about safety; he wears goggles just to water his houseplants.

My brother is fanatical about video games and tried to pause real life so he could finish his level.

The art teacher is fanatical about colors; she nearly fainted when someone called turquoise ‘kind of blue.’

The coach is fanatical about hydration; he told us to drink water every time we blink.

A girl was fanatical about kites. She tied fanatical ribbons, painted fanatical faces on each kite, stacked a fanatical row on her roof, and woke neighbors with fanatical flapping. When a small boy asked to fly one, she handed him a string. They watched colors rise and both laughed; the roof fell quiet.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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