fanatic

Converse of object

• have: By Dominic Prince, Daily Mail World Cup mania is about to have football fanatics glued to the TV.
• golf: There must be something in the water in the north of England that has turned its inhabitants into golfing fanatics.
• brainwash: Many thanks for helping to stop the brainwashed religious fanatics from tearing the planet apart.
• appease: Mr Blair said there was no appeasing fanatics, whose enemy was " anyone who isn't them " .

Adjective modifier

• religious: The ITC is run by religious fanatics fighting against a huge tide of truth.
• fundamentalist: We do not need secret police, uniformed storm troopers or identity cards to deal with foreign fundamentalist fanatics.
• Islamic: Yet when Islamic fanatics commit acts of horrifying atrocity, and do so as Moslems, the peaceable Islamic majority has nothing to say.
• dangerous: For these men and women from the future are themselves dangerous fanatics in pursuit of their own bizarre quantum grail.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• become: Keeping fit and healthy is not simply about losing weight, building muscles or becoming a fitness fanatic.

Modifies a noun

• zeal: The fanatic zeal that inspired the first crusaders was already dying out.

Noun used with modifier

• islamist: But they weren't the ones who took to the streets and riots - they were Islamist fanatics, malcontents and thugs.
• fitness: FITNESS fanatics or people just wanting to get in shape are urged to join a popular group for the over 50s in West Middlesbrough.
• football: By Dominic Prince, Daily Mail World Cup mania is about to have football fanatics glued to the TV.
• golf: Golf Gift Idea A lot of the ladies out there are dating guys or are married to golf fanatics.
• sport: Niketown, at Oxford Circus, is a magnet for sports fanatics.
• car: Thanks again for giving us car fanatics a voice to say what we think and feel about the cars of all ages!

Infinitive complement

• enjoy: Understandably the top attraction in Scotland, far less Edinburgh, you do not need to be a history fanatic to enjoy the castle.