Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fashion that is taken up with great enthusiasm for a brief period of time; a craze.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To be busy with trifles.
- noun 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.
- noun A person of whims; one who is difficult to please.
- noun A bundle of straw.
- noun A colored ball.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A hobby ; freak; whim.
- noun a practise followed enthusiastically by a number of people for a limited period of time.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
phenomenon that becomes popular for a very short time.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an interest followed with exaggerated zeal
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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_.
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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
Trapped by Malays A Tale of Bayonet and Kris George Manville Fenn 1870
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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.
July 2007 2007
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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.
Knot-ical Art 2007
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Religions are large, ponderous collections of memes, while a fad is a light, fast-moving (but short-lived) meme.
un-meme 2005
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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 2011
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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 2009
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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.
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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 2010
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I would imagine laptop sales will tank once the net-book fad is over.
reesetee commented on the word fad
Originally fadaise
March 7, 2007