nonfanatic

comparative more nonfanatic · superlative most nonfanatic · alternative non-fanatic

1. Not fanatic; reasonable or moderate.

   By the summer of 1980, however, nonfanatic, pro-Western moderates were in short supply in the Persian Gulf.

   2009, Douglas Little, American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East since 1945, →ISBN

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   In general, we observe the Catholic Dignitaries, and the zealous or fanatic of that creed, especially the Jesuits, are apt to be against him : as for the nonfanatic, they expect better government, secular advantage ; these latter weigh doubtfully, and with less weight whichever way.

   1886, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, page 168

   However we might reach the conclusion, most of us would agree that both fanatic and nonfanatic Nazis are morally depraved.

   1966, Maine. Governor's Task Force on Corrections, In the Public Interest

   We have tacitly assumed that there is in sober fact no real contradiction between science as such and the social and political goals (in their nonfanatic forms) of the various oppositional movements we have studied.

   1997, Paul R. Gross, Norman Levitt, Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science, →ISBN

   Synonyms: nonextreme, temperate, measured, mellow, middle of the road, mild, moderate, nonexcessive

plural nonfanatics · alternative non-fanatic

1. One who is not a fanatic.

   He does not precisely indicate how one distinguishes the fanatic from the nonfanatic.

   1964, The Modern Schoolman - Volume 41, page 176

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   ...but he is an important weapon in the hands of the determined nonfanatic — one who intends to live for the cause, in other words.

   1970, Miles Copeland, The game of nations: the amorality of power politics, page 204

   As every udon fanatic (and even nonfanatic) in Japan knows, Takamatsu sits smack in the center of the Sanuki universe.

   2013, Tadashi Ono, Harris Salat, Japanese Soul Cooking, →ISBN

   If the escape-route of adopting the indifferent-amoral position is not really open to the nonfanatic, then what about the silent-amoral position?

   2014, Ronald Dmitri Milo, Immorality, →ISBN, page 72

   Synonyms: moderate, reasonable person, soft-liner