Antonyms for fads

Grammar : Noun

Spell : fad

Phonetic Transcription : fæd

Definition of fads

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

Example sentences :

The Constitution is neither a legislative crazy-quilt nor a receptacle of fads.
Extract from : « 'Tis Sixty Years Since » by Charles Francis Adams

Do you know, Rose Millar, these decorators' fads are constantly changing?
Extract from : « A Houseful of Girls » by Sarah Tytler

He had none of the fads which we associate with the Radical party.
Extract from : « Victorian Worthies » by George Henry Blore

I suppose if she marries a husband with any fads of that sort, she will have to share them.
Extract from : « The Arbiter » by Lady F. E. E. Bell

Finally the no-breakfast idea went the way of most fads in food.
Extract from : « American Cookery » by Various

He never concealed his fancies, his fads, his manias, his vices.
Extract from : « Visions and Revisions » by John Cowper Powys

Seven children, one of them unweaned, and then all these fads to put up with.
Extract from : « The Light Shines in Darkness » by Leo Tolstoy

She did little else just now, for she was a creature of fads.
Extract from : « The Girl from Sunset Ranch » by Amy Bell Marlowe

He was too full of interests, of "fads," some people called them, ever to be dull.
Extract from : « A True Friend » by Adeline Sergeant

There was another fashion, "fads" we should call them nowadays.
Extract from : « A Little Girl in Old New York » by Amanda Millie Douglas

Synonyms for fads

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