ardent

Preposition: of

• fan: The events of the Atlanta Olympics will, by now, only be recalled by the most ardent of sports fan.

Modifies a noun

• admirer: Vincent van Gogh was an ardent admirer of Japanese prints.
• supporter: Adam is an ardent supporter of Fuller's brewery.
• devotee: Perhaps the best known was Woodrow Wyatt, the former right wing Labor MP who ended up an ardent devotee of Margaret Thatcher.
• follower: I am still an ardent member of the Society and an equally ardent follower of events at Brooklands, albeit from afar.
• royalist: He became an ardent Royalist and raised a troop of horse to fight in the Bishops Wars.

Modifying Another Word

• even: Even ardent Down fans stopped to pass on their good wishes.
• too: The QCA has become too ardent a defender of every aspect of the present system.
• so: Why should he be so ardent in desiring grave and verbose writers?
• very: But it's a need to communicate and I have a very ardent belief in the power of stories.
• equally: I am still an ardent member of the Society and an equally ardent follower of events at Brooklands, albeit from afar.
• not: People seem to think Lakers fans are not ardent enough, but part of it is about being cool.

Used with adjective complement

• become: The QCA has become too ardent a defender of every aspect of the present system.