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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