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Grammar : Noun |
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Phonetic Transcription : fæd |
Definition of fad
Origin :- 1834, "hobby, pet project;" 1881 as "fashion, craze," perhaps shortened from fiddle-faddle. Or perhaps from French fadaise "trifle, nonsense," ultimately from Latin fatuus "stupid."
- noun craze
- I see some man in the East has a fad for breaking the ice in the river and going swimming.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- For at bottom, atheism is either a fad or a trade or a fatuity.
- Extract from : « The Book of Khalid » by Ameen Rihani
- I laughed at this fad, and, not thinking him incorrigible I took him into my service.
- Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
- Every private inclination is a fad, and even fads have their fixed forms.
- Extract from : « The New Society » by Walther Rathenau
- It was a fad of the Doctor's to pass an afternoon on the farm, gathering stones.
- Extract from : « Watch Yourself Go By » by Al. G. Field
- "Watching it this way could get to be a fad," the repairman said, at last, almost inaudibly.
- Extract from : « Something Will Turn Up » by David Mason
- A fad with an uncommon amount of backbone to it, apparently.
- Extract from : « The History of Sir Richard Calmady » by Lucas Malet
- Once again, it was my fad to like such places, and Dollmann cleared me out.
- Extract from : « The Riddle of the Sands » by Erskine Childers
- Going to college is getting to be the fashion—almost a fad in some places.
- Extract from : « On the Firing Line in Education » by Adoniram Judson Ladd
- As for his being English, it was just a fad of Manderson's to have an English secretary.
- Extract from : « The Woman in Black » by Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Synonyms for fad
- affectation
- amusement
- caprice
- chic
- conceit
- cry
- custom
- dernier cri
- eccentricity
- fancy
- fantasy
- fashion
- fool notion
- frivolity
- furor
- hobby
- humor
- in
- in thing
- innovation
- kick
- kink
- latest word
- mania
- mode
- new look
- newest wrinkle
- passing fancy
- passion
- quirk
- rage
- sport
- style
- thing
- trend
- vagary
- vogue
- whim
- whimsy
- wrinkle
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