enthusiastic

English

Alternative forms

• enthusiastick (obsolete)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἐνθουσιαστικός (enthousiastikós), from either ἐνθουσιασμός (enthousiasmós) or ἐνθουσιάζω (enthousiázō) + -τικός (-tikós).

Pronunciation

• (UK, Canada) IPA^(key): /ɪnˌθjuːzɪˈæstɪk/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ɪnˌθuːziˈæstɪk/

• Audio (General American):

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• Rhymes: -æstɪk

Adjective

enthusiastic (comparative more enthusiastic, superlative most enthusiastic)

1. With zealous fervor; excited, motivated.

   an enthusiastic lover of art

   • 1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], Tales of a Traveller, (please specify |part=1 to 4), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, […], →OCLC:

     a young man […] of a visionary and enthusiastic character

2. Relating to enthusiasm, or divine possession.

Derived terms

• antienthusiastic
• enthusiastical
• enthusiastically
• hyperenthusiastic
• nonenthusiastic
• overenthusiastic
• pseudoenthusiastic
• superenthusiastic
• ultraenthusiastic
• unenthusiastic

Related terms

• enthusiasm
• enthusiast

Translations

with zealous fervor; excited, motivated

• Afrikaans: entoesiasties
• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: խանդավառ (hy) (xandavaṙ)
• Basque: gogotsu
• Bulgarian: страстен (bg) (strasten), възторжен (bg) (vǎztoržen)
• Catalan: entusiàstic
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 熱心 / 热心 (zh) (rèxīn), 熱情 / 热情 (zh) (rèqíng), 很感興趣的 / 很感兴趣的 (hěn gǎn xìngqù de), 激動 / 激动 (zh) (jīdòng)

• Czech: nadšený (cs) m
• Danish: entusiastisk
• Dutch: enthousiast (nl)
• Esperanto: entuziasma
• Finnish: innokas (fi), innostunut (fi)
• French: enthousiaste (fr)
• Galician: entusiástico (gl) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: enthusiastisch (de), begeistert (de)
• Greek: ενθουσιαστικός (el) m (enthousiastikós)

  Ancient: πρόθυμος (próthumos)

• Hungarian: lelkes (hu)
• Indonesian: antusias (id)
• Italian: entusiasta (it)
• Japanese: 熱心 (ja) (ねっしん, nesshin)
• Javanese: grengseng (jv), gumrengseng
• Korean: 열광적인 (yeolgwangjeogin), 열성의 (yeolseong'ui)
• Latin: cupiens, studiōsus (la), avidus (la)
• Manx: ard-jeean
• Maori: matangareka, whiwhita, hauoraora, ngākau whakapuke, kohara
• Marathi: उत्साही (utsāhī)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: entusiastisk (no)

  Nynorsk: entusiastisk

• Portuguese: entusiástico (pt), entusiasmado (pt)
• Romanian: entuziast (ro), entuziasmat (ro)
• Russian: восто́рженный (ru) (vostóržennyj), по́лный энтузиа́зма (pólnyj entuziázma), стра́стный (ru) (strástnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: dian, dealasach
• Serbo-Croatian: entuzijàstičan (sh), zanèsen (sh)
• Slovak: entuziastický m
• Spanish: entusiasmado (es), entusiástico
• Swedish: entusiastisk (sv)
• Thai: กระตือรือร้น (th) (grà-dtʉʉ-rʉʉ-rón)
• Turkish: hevesli (tr)
• Vietnamese: hăng hái (vi), nhiệt tình (vi)
• Volapük: lanälik (vo)
• Welsh: brwdfrydig (cy)

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