Antonyms for fad

Grammar : Noun

Spell : fad

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

Example sentences :

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

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