| Noun | 1. | enthusiast - an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activityaddict, freak, junkie, junky, nut - someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction; "a golf addict"; "a car nut"; "a news junkie" backslapper - someone who demonstrates enthusiastic or excessive cordiality fanatic, fiend - a person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause); "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject"--Winston Churchill gadgeteer - a person who delights in designing or building or using gadgets | |