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
- 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
- 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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