The speech was short, the crowds less enthusiastic.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Many young people are enthusiastic about IT, but don’t consider it a career path.
Computing (2010)
It was really good fun and they were all keen sailors and enthusiastic.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The enthusiastic young chemist set to work.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
An enthusiastic gardener on the ground at each school is essential.
The Sun (2013)
Surely it is good to see a younger person so enthusiastic about antiques?
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
There may be staff whose performance is less than enthusiastic.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Reaction from investors was less than enthusiastic.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
His approach on presentation day is equally enthusiastic but less swashbuckling.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
But other head teachers are less enthusiastic about the proposals.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
You effectively acknowledge this in your report but disregard it in your leader where you give the plan your enthusiastic support.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
He is so young and enthusiastic.
The Sun (2014)
It's a lot of fun being this keen and enthusiastic.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Then you'll have my enthusiastic support.
Christianity Today (2000)
After professing enthusiastic support for reform of the present scorned system, ministers have gone suspiciously quiet.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
They were young, enthusiastic and full of new ideas.
The Sun (2012)
The hotel has flourished under its new owners, with the help of an enthusiastic young brigade.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Which is perhaps why her friends are less enthusiastic that she's here today.
The Sun (2012)
It is also easy to see why enthusiastic young men were desirable to the Army.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
She is an enthusiastic gardener and does most of the work herself, employing help just one day a week.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
This gives the big name a personal interest in offering enthusiastic support, because it is to his or her continuing financial advantage.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
He was also a keen angler and an enthusiastic gardener, with his dahlias and leeks becoming the envy of Hampshire.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The sumptuous productions of the 1980s were considered by the Met management to be an investment and found the enthusiastic support of major sponsors.
Susie Gilbert and Jay Shir A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since1945 (2003)
Instead, it should match stern condemnation of injustice in the rich and poor worlds alike with enthusiastic support for faster growth, more competition and freer trade.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
In other languages
enthusiastic
British English: enthusiastic /ɪnˌθjuːzɪˈæstɪk/ ADJECTIVE
If you are enthusiastic about something, you show how much you like or enjoy it by the way that you behave and talk.
He is enthusiastic about photography.
American English: enthusiastic
Arabic: مُتَحَمِّس
Brazilian Portuguese: entusiástico
Chinese: 热情的
Croatian: entuzijastičan
Czech: nadšený
Danish: entusiastisk
Dutch: enthousiast
European Spanish: entusiasta
Finnish: innokas
French: enthousiaste
German: enthusiastisch
Greek: ενθουσιώδης
Italian: entusiasta
Japanese: 熱心な
Korean: 열심인
Norwegian: entusiastisk
Polish: entuzjastyczny
European Portuguese: entusiástico
Romanian: entuziasmat
Russian: увлеченный
Latin American Spanish: entusiasta
Swedish: entusiastisk
Thai: กระตือรือร้น
Turkish: hevesli
Ukrainian: захоплений
Vietnamese: nhiệt tình
Chinese translation of 'enthusiastic'
enthusiastic
(ɪnθuːzɪˈæstɪk)
adj
(= excited, eager)
[person]极(極)感兴(興)趣的 (jí gǎn xìngqù de)
[response, reception]热(熱)情的 (rèqíng de)
to be enthusiastic about sth对(對)某事满(滿)怀(懷)热(熱)情 (duì mǒushì mǎnhuái rèqíng)
(adjective)
The band drew a huge and enthusiastic crowd.
Synonyms
keen
a keen amateur photographer
earnest
Despite their earnest efforts, they failed to win support.
spirited
He wanted merely to provoke a spirited debate.
committed
excited
devoted
warm
We were instantly attracted by his warm personality.
eager
He looked at the crowd of eager faces around him.
lively
She had a sweet, lively personality.
passionate
He made a passionate speech about his commitment to peace.
vigorous
The choir and orchestra gave a vigorous performance of Haydn's oratorio.
ardent
an ardent opponent of the war
hearty
He was a hearty, bluff, athletic sort of guy.
exuberant
Our son was a highly active and exuberant little person.
avid
an avid collector of art
fervent
a fervent admirer of her work
zealous
She was a zealous worker for charitable bodies.
ebullient
The minister was fiery, ebullient, and quick-witted.
vehement
There has been widespread and vehement condemnation of the attack.
wholehearted
He deserves our wholehearted support in this matter.