Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A fashion that is taken up with great enthusiasm for a brief period of time; a craze.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A trivial fancy adopted and pursued for a time with irrational zeal; a matter of no importance, or an important matter imperfectly understood, taken up, and urged with more zeal than sense; a whim; a crotchet; a temporary hobby.
- n. A person of whims; one who is difficult to please.
- To be busy with trifles.
- n. A bundle of straw.
- n. A colored ball.
Wiktionary
- n. A phenomenon that becomes popular for a very short time.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A hobby ; freak; whim.
- n. a practise followed enthusiastically by a number of people for a limited period of time.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an interest followed with exaggerated zeal
Etymologies
- Possibly from fidfad, fussy person, fussy, from fiddle-faddle. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“It simply means that he must give up some other fad or fancy and take up with this last, which, be it here reiterated, is no _fad_.”
“But as soon as the rifle had flashed there was the _fad, fad, fad_ of hurried steps, something whizzed in at the window, and with”
“Beach-related motifs are very popular and I've seen them everywhere this year, but what sets Jessica's items apart from the fad is her amazing craftsmanship and wonderful whimsy associated with each piece.”
“Religions are large, ponderous collections of memes, while a fad is a light, fast-moving (but short-lived) meme.”
“Ultrabooks and tablet computers are a short term fad, according to the founder of computer firm Acer.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“I would imagine laptop sales will tank once the net-book fad is over.”
“This beautifully designed volume covers a roughly two decade-long design fad from the late 19th-century that has previously been given scant attention by historians.”
Book Review: The Handy Book of Artistic Printing : Scrubbles.net
“One has to wonder though: when this fad is over, are they going to take down all of the references to Twilight?”
Stuff We Did On Our Vacation, Part One; Or, A Pictorial Essay on Vampire Habitats
“My latest fad is freezing passata, I use it to make sauce and you just throw the frozen glob into a pan of fried onion and garlic and you have instant basic tomato sauce when it all heats up.”
Use Your Freezer Efficiently To Save Money (and Food) | Lifehacker Australia
“No problem, this internet fad is great, i get to “meet” people I grew up reading.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fad’.
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Noteworthy Words
Here I have in mind a list of words that could be spelled with only the letters A, B, C, D, E, F, and G--and thus could also be played as a tune on the piano.
face, ace, bag, cage, bad, fad, fade, fee, gee, beg, fed, deaf and 98 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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3 Letter Words
A list of English words that are three letters long.
ace, act, ade, ado, add, ads, age, ago, ail, air, aim, all and 397 more...
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gcherches's Words
serendipity, roadrunner, inner child, coagulant, esquire, vicissitude, idiot savant, mitigation, affirmation, affirmative, diatribe, affirmative action and 185 more...
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Fun with Apocopes
Words created by removing the end of a longer or original word. See also Fun with Aphesis.
abs, ad, bio, veg, veggie, tux, auto, bike, carbs, pecs, bro, sis and 186 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Vocab
Words that I come across, and go blank, or want to clarify.
nefarious, edifice, malevolent, ostensible, folderol, bauble, livid, amnesty, calculus, saddlery, maisonette, cuisse and 423 more...
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vozcelik's Words
cranny, tummy, nook, sinister, cajole, frugal, chafe, wimp, booger, patriarchy, indifference, mire and 162 more...
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Invention
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Vocalublary Awareness
Words I need to use more to increase my vocabulary.
incredulous, prolific, ubiquitous, egregious, aplomb, resilience, persevere, punctilious, perspicacious, inordinate, articulate, enunciate and 199 more...
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Rita's List of Words
preliminary, rudimentary, stance, conduit, locale, implicit, vicissitude, empirical, repository, apophthegm, apothegm, invariable and 431 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1500 more...
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ramona
beezus, yard ape, howie kemp, willa jean kemp, whaley, oatmeal, nuisance, yamhill, mount hood, glenwood, quimby, tongue and 26 more...
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MEC2 Lesson 125
news, news-gathering, clip, clipping, replace, wire, thread, come across, deadly, fad, sneak, shaft and 7 more...
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mvaline's Words
emma, puddle, tinfoil, frugal, anthropomorphize, refreshing, scintillating, rarefied, kookaburra, flimsy, nifty, terrific and 26 more...
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11227 telegraph hf
elasticated, buckle, super-sizing, billowing, soar, obese, wolf down, flanked, imposing, culinary, temple to, cabinet of and 22 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for fad.
reesetee Originally fadaise Mar 7, 2007