| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | consumed, driven about belief, desire |
| Synonyms: | bedeviled, beset, bewitched, captivated, controlled, dogged, dominated, eat sleep and breathe, engrossed, fiendish, fixated, gripped, harassed, haunted, have on the brain, held, hooked, hung up on, immersed in, infatuated, into*, overpowered, plagued, possessed, preoccupied, prepossessed, really into, seized, taken over, tied up, tormented, troubled, turned on, up to here in, wound up with, wrapped up in |
| Antonyms: | indifferent, unconcerned |
| Main Entry: | enthusiastic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | interested, excited |
| Synonyms: | agog, animated, anxious, ardent, athirst, attracted, avid, bugged, concerned, crazy about, devoted, dying to, eager, earnest, ebullient, exhilarated, exuberant, fanatical, fascinated, fervent, fervid, forceful, gaga, gone on, gung ho, hearty, intent, keen, keyed up, lively, nutty, obsessed, passionate, pleased, rabid, red-hot, rhapsodic, spirited, tantalized, thrilled, titillated, unqualified, vehement, vigorous, wacky*, warm, wholehearted, willing, zealous |
| Antonyms: | apathetic, disinterested, doubting, indifferent, lethargic, pessimistic, unenthusiastic, unexcited, weary |
| Main Entry: | fanatical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overenthusiastic |
| Synonyms: | biased, bigoted, bugged, burning*, contumacious, credulous, devoted, dogmatic, domineering, enthusiastic, erratic, extreme, fervent, feverish, fiery, frenzied, headstrong, high on, immoderate, impassioned, impulsive, incorrigible, infatuated, mad, monomaniacal, narrow-minded, nuts for, obsessed, obsessive, obstinate, opinionated, partial, partisan, passionate, possessed, prejudiced, rabid, radical, raving, single-minded, stubborn, turned on, unruly, violent, visionary, wild, willful, zealous |
| Antonyms: | disinterested, dispassionate, impartial, unenthusiastic |
| Main Entry: | given to |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | likely to |
| Synonyms: | accustomed, addicted, apt, disposed, habituated, in the habit of, inclined, inured, liable, obsessed, prone |
| Main Entry: | hell-bent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | set on |
| Synonyms: | bent on, bound and determined, constant, decided, determined, driven, firm, fixed, intent, obsessed, persevering, persistent, relentless, resolute, resolved, serious, set on, single-minded, steadfast, strong-minded, strong-willed, stubborn, tenacious, unhesitating, unrelenting, unwavering |
| Main Entry: | hooked |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | addicted |
| Synonyms: | absorbed, captivated, dependent, devoted, enamored, obsessed, prone, strung out, under the influence |
| Main Entry: | interested |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerned, curious |
| Synonyms: | absorbed, affected, attentive, attracted, awakened, biased, caught, drawn, eat sleep and breathe, engrossed, enticed, excited, fascinated, fired*, gone*, hooked, implicated, impressed, inspired, inspirited, intent, into*, involved, keen, lured, moved, obsessed, occupied, on the case, open, partial, partisan, predisposed, prejudiced, responsive, roused, sold, stimulated, stirred, struck, sympathetic, taken, touched |
| Antonyms: | apathetic, disinterested, incurious, unconcerned |
| Main Entry: | possessed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bewitched; under a spell |
| Synonyms: | bedeviled, berserk*, consumed, crazed, cursed, demented, enchanted, enthralled, fiendish, frenetic, frenzied, gone*, haunted, hooked, insane, into*, mad*, obsessed, raving, taken over, violent |
| Antonyms: | normal |
| Main Entry: | preoccupied |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | busy; mentally caught up in something |
| Synonyms: | absent, absent-minded, absorbed, abstracted, airheaded, asleep, bemused, bugged, daydreaming, deep*, distracted, distrait, engaged, engrossed, faraway, fascinated, forgetful, have on the brain, heedless, hung up, immersed, inconscient, intent, lost, lost in thought, mooning, moony, oblivious, obsessed, rapt, removed, spellbound, spread out, taken up, unaware, woolgathering, wrapped-up |
| Notes: | occupied means in use or seized and controlled as by military invasion; preoccupied means deeply absorbed in thought or having compulsive concern with something |
| Antonyms: | observant, thoughtful, unoccupied |