tilator, aerator; palm leaf, flabellum, (both esp. in India) punkah, thermantidote.
-v. 2. ventilate, air, aerate; air-condition, air-cool; cool, chill, refrigerate; winnow, blow upon, stir up a breeze; refresh, freshen, revive, revitalize.
3. arouse, agitate, excite, stimulate, suscitate, foment, impassion, move, stir up, work up, whip up, fire up; inflame, enkindle, ignite, touch off; incite, instigate, provoke, stir the embers, add fuel to the flames.
4. spread, spread out, outspread, lay out, open up; unfurl, unfold, stretch out.
fan2, n. 1. devotee, enthusiast, aficionado, Inf. buff, Inf hound, Sl. bug, Sl. nut; addict, Inf. fiend, Sl. junkie, Sl. freak; satellite, claqueur, (all usu. of adolescent girls) (in the 40s) bobbysoxer, (in the 60s) teenybopper, (in the 70s) groupie.
2. votary, champion, follower, disciple, adherent; zealot, partisan, bigot, fanatic; visionary, cultist, sectary.
3. promoter, supporter, Inf. pusher, Inf. booster, Inf. arm-waver; chauvinist, jingoist.
fanatic, n. 1. zealot, partisan, bigot, sectarian; extremist, radical; devotee, votary, champion, disciple. See - fan (defs. 1, 3).
-adj. 2. fanatical, zealous, extremist; frenzied, frenetic, phrenetic, Sl. off the wall. See - fanatical, fanatical, adj. 1. partisan, biased, partial, prejudiced; narrow-minded, intolerant, dogmatic, stubborn, obstinate; uncompromising, extreme, radical, unreasonable.
2. enthusiastic, ardent, fervent, eager, keen, anxious, Inf. wild; heated, vehement, fervid, perfervid; Inf. all fired up, Inf psyched or psyched up, Sl. hopped up, Sl. ape; zealous, agog, passionate, Inf. gung-ho, Inf. rah-rah; possessed, fanatic, Sl. hung up, rabid; frenzied, frenetic, phrenetic, hysterical, Sl. off the wall,
fanaticism, n. 1. devotion, devotedness, fetishism;
monomania, single-mindedness, infatuation; enthusiasm, zeal, zealotry, feverishness, passion; insanity, frenzy, hysteria.
2. dogmatism, bigotry, intolerance, close-minded-ness, narrow-mindedness; prejudice, bias, partiality,
fanciful, adj. 1. capricious, whimsical, frivolous,
extravagant, flighty, irresponsible, unstable; unpredictable, erratic, irregular, eccentric, odd; strange, bizarre, queer, outlandish, freakish, freaky; ridiculous, fantastic, crazy.
2. imaginative, original, inventive, creative; visionary, impractical, impracticable, quixotic, romantic, poetic.
3. fancied, imaginary, unreal, illusory, visionary; imagined, made-up, make-believe, mythical, fairytale.
fancy, n. 1. imagination, creativity, originality; conception, origination, generation, creation, invention, fabrication, formation.
2. mental image, visualization, picture; conception, concept, thought, notion, idea, abstraction, conceptualization; perception, view, opinion, understanding, belief, impression, sentiment, feeling.
3. daydream, reverie, fantasy, fiction, make-believe, fable, myth, unreality; illusion, figment, vision, mirage, hallucination; phantom, phantasm, apparition, ghost, specter, eidolon, chimera.
4. caprice, whim, whimsy, Archaic, megrim, vagary, humor; odd notion, crotchet, kink, Archaic, maggot; quirk, peculiarity, eccentricity.
5. inclination, set, bent, leaning, tendency; predilection, propensity, proclivity, predisposal, predisposed-ness, disposition; preference, partiality, attraction, liking, fondness, taste, penchant; desire, wish, longing, yearning, hankering, Inf. yen, Sl. itch, Sl. letch.