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fad Definition

fad (fad)

noun

a custom, style, etc. that many people are interested in for a short time; passing fashion; craze

Etymology: 19th c. < Brit Midland dial.

fad Related Forms

faddy adjective

fad Synonyms

fad

n.

craze, fashion, vogue, rage, trend, mania, enthusiasm, affectation, fancy, caprice, whim, style, freak, hobby, cry, novelty, innovation, custom, amusement, humor, vagary, dernier cri (French), crotchet, maggot, quirk, kink, eccentricity, passing fashion, popular innovation, prevailing taste, frivolity, whimsy, passing fancy, sensation, furor, the latest word*, all the rage*, the thing*, the latest thing*, the in thing*, the last word*, the new look*, in joke*, flash in the pan*, nine days' wonder*. *

Antonyms custom*, convention*, tradition. See syn. study at fashion.fashion.

fad Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • pass: For me, social enterprises are not a passing fad.
  • become: Neither do they want ebook readers to become the next thieves fad, like mobile phones.
  • follow: Don't just follow the fad for the latest trendy trainers for example.
  • start: I won't try to start new fads or fashions.
  • have: He who has a fad never finds time hanging heavy on his hands.

Preposition: in

hope: Movie studios have a habit of milking fads in the hope that what worked well in one movie will do equally well in another.

Adjective modifier

  • nationwide: Nationwide fad that the event through forum bringing readers million by.
  • fashionable: Are today's environmental concerns really a big deal or just fashionable fads?
  • dietary: In those days, before health scares and dietary fads, milk and milk shakes were the trendy drinks.
  • late: They want to be with the latest fad or fashion.
  • current: What do you feel about the current minimal fad then?
  • musical: Whilst others have gone for whatever musical fad there may be fashionable at the time, PY has just done his own thing.

Modifies a noun

  • diet: Work out the myths behind the current fad diets, do they work?
  • book: Something to also notice, however, is that none of these fad diet books are written by anyone with a degree in nutrition.

Noun used with modifier

  • diet: But we don't have to turn to surgeons or to the latest diet fad to get the body we've always wanted.
  • fashion: The scent, packaging design, and superb quality has eschewed fashion fads through the decades to arise as a veritable legend among fragrances.
  • food: A number of people go through food fads, or go on diets.
  • management: ITIL is not a management fad - here today, gone tomorrow.
  • quick-fix: Send this article to a friend Forget those quick-fix fad diets!
  • music: EB: I don't get into music fads.

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