English
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/
- Rhymes: -æstɪk
Adjective
enthusiastic (comparative more enthusiastic, superlative most enthusiastic)
- With zealous fervor; excited, motivated.
an enthusiastic lover of art
- Relating to enthusiasm, or divine possession.
Derived terms
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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