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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