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Enthusiastic definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ENTHUSIAS'TIC
ENTHUSIAS'TICAL, a. Filled with enthusiasm, or the conceit of special intercourse with God or revelations from him.
1. Highly excited; warm and ardent; zealous in pursuit of an object; heated to animation. Our author was an enthusiastic lover of poetry and admirer of Homer.
2. Elevated; warm; tinctured with enthusiasm. The speaker addressed the audience in enthusiastic strains.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: having or showing great excitement and interest; "enthusiastic crowds filled the streets"; "an enthusiastic response"; "was enthusiastic about taking ballet lessons" [ant: unenthusiastic]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1603 filled with or marked by enthusiasm <enthusiastic supporters> <an enthusiastic recommendation> • enthusiastically adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. having or showing enthusiasm. Derivatives: enthusiastically adv. Etymology: Gk enthousiastikos (as ENTHUSIASM)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Enthusiastic En*thu`si*as"tic, Enthusiastical En*thu`si*as"tic*al, a. [Gr. ? .] 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Enthusiastic En*thu`si*as"tic, n. An enthusiast; a zealot. [Obs.]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you are enthusiastic about something, you show how much you like or enjoy it by the way that you behave and talk. Tom was very enthusiastic about the place... = excited ADJ: oft ADJ about n • enthusiastically The announcement was greeted enthusiastically. ADV: usu ADV with v, also ADV adj

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a.; (also enthusiastical) 1. Fanatical, bigoted. 2. Visionary, extravagant. 3. Ardent, earnest, vehement, zealous, fervent, fervid, burning, flaming, glowing, passionate, impassioned.

Moby Thesaurus

ablaze, acquiescent, active, acute, afire, aggressive, agreeable, alacritous, amenable, animated, ardent, attracted, avid, boiling over, breathless, brisk, buggy, bugs, burning, cathectic, compliant, concerned, consenting, content, cooperative, cordial, curious, delirious, devoted, disposed, docile, drunk, dynamic, eager, earnest, emphatic, energetic, enterprising, enthused, enthusiastic about, excited, exciting, exuberant, fain, fanatical, fascinated, favorable, favorably disposed, favorably inclined, febrile, fervent, fervid, fevered, feverish, fiery, flaming, flushed, forceful, forcible, forward, full of enthusiasm, full of pep, gaga, game, glowing, go-go, gone on, gung ho, gung-ho, hearty, heated, hipped, hopped-up, hot, impassioned, impetuous, in the mind, in the mood, incisive, inclined, infatuated with, intense, interested, intoxicated, irrepressible, keen, keen on, kinetic, lively, living, lusty, mettlesome, minded, nutty, obsessed, on fire, passionate, peppy, piqued, pliant, predisposed, prompt, prone, provoking, quick, rabid, ready, ready and willing, receptive, red-hot, responsive, robust, smacking, snappy, spanking, spirited, steaming, steamy, stimulating, stirring, strenuous, strong, take-charge, take-over, tantalized, tickled, titillated, tractable, trenchant, turned-on, unqualified, unrestrained, unstinting, urgent, vascular, vehement, vibrant, vigorous, vivacious, vivid, warm, well-disposed, well-inclined, willed, willing, willinghearted, zealous, zestful, zesty, zippy