rabid

rabid
    adj 1: of or infected by rabies
    2: marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a
       cause or idea; "rabid isolationist" [syn: {fanatic},
       {fanatical}, {overzealous}, {rabid}]
    

Rabid \Rab"id\ (r[a^]b"[i^]d), a. [L. rabidus, from rabere to
   rave. See {Rage}, n.]
   1. Furious; raging; extremely violent.
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            The rabid flight
            Of winds that ruin ships.             --Chapman.
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   2. Extreme, unreasonable, or fanatical in opinion;
      excessively zealous; as, a rabid socialist.
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   3. Affected with the distemper called rabies; mad; as, a
      rabid dog or fox.
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   4. (Med.) Of or pertaining to rabies, or hydrophobia; as,
      rabid virus.
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96 Moby Thesaurus words for "rabid":
      Dionysiac, abandoned, amok, bacchic, bellowing, berserk, bigoted,
      carried away, corybantic, crazed, crazy, delirious, demented,
      demoniac, deranged, desperate, distracted, ecstatic, enraged,
      enraptured, enthusiastic, extravagant, extreme, extremist, fanatic,
      fanatical, feral, ferocious, fierce, fighting mad, frantic,
      frenetic, frenzied, fulminating, fuming, furious, haggard,
      hog-wild, hopping mad, howling, hydrophobic, hysterical, in a rage,
      in a transport, in hysterics, infuriate, infuriated, inordinate,
      insane, intoxicated, irrational, keen, like one possessed, mad,
      madding, maenadic, maniac, maniacal, obsessed, orgasmic, orgiastic,
      overenthusiastic, overreligious, overzealous, perfervid, possessed,
      radical, raging, ramping, ranting, raving, raving mad, ravished,
      revolutional, revolutionary, revolutionist, roaring, roaring mad,
      running mad, running wild, savage, stark-raving mad, storming,
      transported, ultra, ultraist, ultrazealous, uncontrollable,
      unreasonable, unreasoning, violent, wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking,
      zealotic, zealous