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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea;
- Example: "rabid isolationist"
[syn: fanatic, fanatical, overzealous, rabid]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Overzealous \O"ver*zeal"ous\, a. Too zealous. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

overzealous adj 1: marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea; "rabid isolationist" [syn: fanatic, fanatical, overzealous, rabid]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

88 Moby Thesaurus words for "overzealous": accident-prone, at fever pitch, balking, balky, bigoted, breakneck, bulldogged, bulletheaded, bullheaded, careless, case-hardened, delirious, desperate, devil-may-care, dogged, dogmatic, extravagant, extreme, extremist, fanatic, fanatical, febrile, feverish, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, furious, haggard, hardheaded, harum-scarum, hasty, headlong, headstrong, hectic, hotheaded, hurried, hysteric, impetuous, infatuated, inordinate, insane, intolerant, irrational, mad, mulish, obstinate, opinionated, overanxious, overdesirous, overdevout, overeager, overenthusiastic, overreligious, overrighteous, perfervid, persevering, pertinacious, pigheaded, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, rabid, reckless, restive, sanctimonious, self-willed, set, slap-bang, slapdash, stiff-necked, strong-willed, strongheaded, stubborn, sulky, sullen, tenacious, ultrareligious, ultrazealous, uncooperative, unreasonable, unregenerate, wanton, wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking, willful, zealotic, zealous