Vocabulary
Fanatical
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
filled with excessive and single-minded zeal.
Urdu meaning
جنونی، کٹر، متعصب
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Mamdani dispels the easy description of `good` Muslims being secular or Westernised and the `bad` being slotted as pre-modern and fanatical.
- As Pakistan confronts a fresh wave of terrorist violence, few political or religious leaders are willingly to so openly slam the fanatical forces involved in bloodshed by misinterpreting religious precepts.
- But it is naïve to expect Mr Trump to pressure Israel into silencing its guns in Gaza, surrounded as he is by fanatical Zionists for whom the extermination of the Palestinian people is almost an article of faith.
- Moreover, fanatical elements that provide the ideological fuel to violent extremists continue to function, though they may be keeping a low profile.
- It was a fanatical wing of the Hindu Mahasabha directly under Savarkar that hatched the conspiracy...` Today, however, it`s difficult to tell one from the other.
Synonyms
zealous, extremist, extreme, militant, sectarian
Antonyms
moderate, open-minded
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