zealous (adj.)
- abandoned
- ablaze
- acquiescent
- afire
- agitated
- agreeable
- alacritous
- amenable
- anxious
- apprehensive
- ardent
- assiduous
- avid
- bothered
- breathless
- buggy
- burning
- committed
- compliant
- concerned
- consenting
- content
- cooperative
- cordial
- dedicated
- delirious
- devoted
- devout
- diligent
- disposed
- disquieted
- disturbed
- docile
- drunk
- eager
- earnest
- energetic
- enthusiastic
- excited
- exuberant
- fain
- faithful
- fanatic
- fanatical
- favorable
- fearful
- febrile
- fervent
- fervid
- fevered
- feverish
- fiery
- fired
- flaming
- flushed
- foreboding
- forward
- frenetic
- game
- glowing
- hard
- hard-core
- hardworking
- hearty
- heated
- hot
- hot-blooded
- hotheaded
- impassioned
- inclined
- indefatigable
- industrious
- infatuated
- inflamed
- intense
- intent
- intoxicated
- keen
- laborious
- lively
- loyal
- madcap
- minded
- nervous
- nutty
- obsessed
- overanxious
- overzealous
- passionate
- perfervid
- perturbed
- pliant
- possessed
- predisposed
- prompt
- prone
- quick
- rabid
- ready
- receptive
- red-hot
- relentless
- resolute
- responsive
- sanctimonious
- scorching
- sedulous
- serious
- sincere
- sleepless
- solicitous
- spirited
- steaming
- steamy
- strained
- strenuous
- suspenseful
- tense
- tireless
- tractable
- troubled
- uneasy
- unflagging
- unremitting
- unrestrained
- unsleeping
- unsparing
- unwearied
- vehement
- vigorous
- warm
- well-disposed
- white-hot
- wild-eyed
- willed
- willing
I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing." . . . . There was another fine passage too which he struck out: "When I was a young man, being anxious to distinguish myself, I was perpetually starting new propositions. But I soon gave this over; for I found that generally what was new was false."
Zealous, yet modest; innocent, though free;
Patient of toil, serene amidst alarms;
Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms.
