Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who has a fad or whims; one wholly given up to a fad.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a person who subscribes to a variety of fads.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person or entity given to following
fads .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who subscribes to a variety of fads
Etymologies
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Examples
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He will be called faddist, narrow, sour-visaged, and so on and so on.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John Alexander Maclaren 1868
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Yet "Great Soul" also obligingly gives readers more than enough information to discern that he was a sexual weirdo, a political incompetent and a fanatical faddist—one who was often downright cruel to those around him.
Among the Hagiographers Andrew Roberts 2011
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Much of the best art straddles and defies categories, and is transgressive or hybrid out of necessity, not out of aesthetic correctness nor faddist whim.
ArtScene: Joachim Bandau and Cornelia Schulz Deliver Optical Pleasure with Intellectual Vigor ArtScene 2010
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(You guessed it, her pet doctor Mehmet Oz is another food faddist.)
Detox Your Brain, Not Your Diet Steve Carper 2008
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"Fear is the foe of the faddist," he wrote in the 1994 report, "but the friend of the fundamentalist."
American Everyman 2004
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"Fear is the foe of the faddist," he wrote in the 1994 report, "but the friend of the fundamentalist."
American Everyman 2004
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If that culture contains a faddist management approach of which training becomes an expression it will be difficult to suceed no matter how exemplary the individual training program.
Back to the Future David Grebow 2005
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If that culture contains a faddist management approach of which training becomes an expression it will be difficult to suceed no matter how exemplary the individual training program.
Back to the Future David Grebow 2005
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There was young Caterham, for example, cousin of the Earl of Pewterstone, and one of the most promising of English politicians, who, taking the risk of being thought a faddist, wrote a long article in the Nineteenth
The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth Herbert George 2004
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And they wore -- and I describe in the book in several -- they wore sort of h-- there was health faddist space shoes that are molded to the foot out of some curious substance that isn't leather but also isn't plastic.
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