enthusiastic

[en-thoo-zee-as-tik]

adjective

1. full of or characterized by enthusiasm; ardent.

   He seems very enthusiastic about his role in the play.

   Synonyms: impassioned, fervid, vehement, passionate, zealous, fervent, eager

Other Word Forms

• enthusiastically adverb
• antienthusiastic adjective
• hyperenthusiastic adjective
• nonenthusiastic adjective
• overenthusiastic adjective
• pseudoenthusiastic adjective
• quasi-enthusiastic adjective
• unenthusiastic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of enthusiastic¹

First recorded in 1595–1605; from Greek enthousiastikós; enthusiast ( def. ), -ic ( def. )

Example Sentences

Much of the reason the Ripa-Consuelos team has been successful on TV is that they are enthusiastic, quarrelsome in an amusing way, but also intense.

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Not everyone felt quite as enthusiastic about goings-on inside the Club World Cup stadiums.

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Clients pay for qualitative research, surveys, focus groups and interviews with a pool of enthusiastic respondents the agency calls the Koi Pond.

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She was enthusiastic, but urged him to retitle it “The Notebook.”

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As one husband and father who attended the event with his more enthusiastic wife and daughters put it, “every man had a crush on Lorelai.”

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Related Words

• anxious 
• ardent 
• avid 
• concerned 
• eager 
• earnest 
• exuberant 
• fanatical 
• fervent 
• forceful 
• keen 
• passionate 
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• rabid 
• rhapsodic 
• vigorous 
• warm 
• willing 
• zealous