nonfanatic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not fanatic; reasonable or moderate.
noun
One who is not a fanatic.
Example Sentences
- "In general, we observe the Catholic Dignitaries, and the zealous or fanatic of that creed, especially the Jesuits, are apt to be against him : as for the nonfanatic, they expect better government, secular advantage ; these latter weigh doubtfully, and with less weight whichever way."
- "However we might reach the conclusion, most of us would agree that both fanatic and nonfanatic Nazis are morally depraved."
- "We have tacitly assumed that there is in sober fact no real contradiction between science as such and the social and political goals (in their nonfanatic forms) of the various oppositional movements we have studied."
- "By the summer of 1980, however, nonfanatic, pro-Western moderates were in short supply in the Persian Gulf."
- "He does not precisely indicate how one distinguishes the fanatic from the nonfanatic."
- "...but he is an important weapon in the hands of the determined nonfanatic — one who intends to live for the cause, in other words."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more nonfanatic (comparative)
most nonfanatic (superlative)
non-fanatic (alternative)
nonfanatics (plural)