enthusiastic
enthusiastic is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Filled with enthusiasm; characterized by enthusiasm; zealous; as, an enthusiastic lover of art. "Enthusiastical raptures." Calamy. -- En*thu`si*as"tic*al*ly, adv. A young man . . . of a visionary and enthusiastic character. W. Irving.
- 2.An enthusiast; a zealot. [Obs.]
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- affectibility
- alive
- aromatic
- chicken
- core
- die
- excitability
- excitable
- expressive
- fastidious
- gushing
- have
- heart
- hearted
- highflying
- impassionable
- impressibility
- impressible
- impressionable
- inmost
- lively
- mettlesome
- mobile
- mobility
- moral
- nerve
- pain
- physical
- place
- point
- pour
- quick
- raw
- romantic
- rose
- salt
- sensibility
- sensible
- sensibleness
- sensibly
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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