Definition for Fad:

• A passing fashion; hobby.

Synonyms for Fad:

• adj.

  •current (adjective)
  • faddest,
  • more cuttingedge,
  • most leading edge,
  • cuttingedge,
  • more cutting edge,
  • more cutting-edge,
  • most leading-edge,
  • nower,
  • presentday,
  • pre sent,
  • most cuttingedge,
  • pre-vailing,
  • pre-sent,
  • most cutting-edge,
  • most leadingedge,
  • more leading-edge,
  • nowest,
  • pre vailing,
  • doingest,
  • leadingedge,
  • in news,
  • most cutting edge,
  • up to date,
  • in mainstream,
  • more leading edge,
  • present day,
  • fadder,
  • doinger,
  • more leadingedge.

• n.

  •
  • flavor of the month/week,
  • a flash in the pan.
  •
  • usual,
  • mode.
  •caprice (noun)
  • notion,
  • fitfulness,
  • humor,
  • inconstancies,
  • fickleness,
  • inconstancy,
  • changeableness,
  • thought,
  • fool notion.
  •craze (noun)
  • crotchet,
  • kink,
  • maggot,
  • affectation,
  • eccentricity,
  • the latest word,
  • wrinkle,
  • kick,
  • quirk,
  • novelty,
  • vagary,
  • cry,
  • in,
  • sensation,
  • frivolity,
  • passing fashion,
  • innovation,
  • sport,
  • passing fancy,
  • fancy,
  • the new look,
  • whimsy,
  • amusement,
  • custom,
  • newest wrinkle,
  • chic,
  • prevailing taste,
  • in thing,
  • popular innovation,
  • latest word,
  • fantasy,
  • conceit,
  • in-joke.
  •cult (noun)
  • cult.
  •cultural item repeatedly transmitted (noun)
  • meme.
  •dernier cri (noun)
  • avantgarde,
  • avant garde,
  • latest fads,
  • latest cries,
  • all rage,
  • new looks,
  • in vogues,
  • avantgardes,
  • latest wrinkles,
  • dernier-cri,
  • the last words,
  • latest cry,
  • avant gardes,
  • the latest fads,
  • newest fashion,
  • in things,
  • the newest fashions,
  • the latest things,
  • newest fashions,
  • the latest cries.
  •enthusiasm (noun)
  • impetuosity,
  • fieriness,
  • oomph,
  • Ardency,
  • zealousness.
  •fad (noun)
  • furore.
  •fashion (noun)
  • faddism,
  • bandwagons,
  • bandwagon,
  • latest,
  • cultism,
  • Cultus.
  •flash in the pan (noun)
  • mis fire,
  • mis-fire,
  • mis fires,
  • wet squibs,
  • flash in pan,
  • nine days wonder,
  • mis-fires,
  • flash pan,
  • flash the pan,
  • flash-pan,
  • brief successes.
  •furor (noun)
  • free for all,
  • hell broke looses,
  • out-cries,
  • out-cry,
  • up-roar,
  • up-roars,
  • out cries,
  • big stinks,
  • out-burst,
  • out cry,
  • out bursts,
  • out burst,
  • out-bursts,
  • big scenes.
  •hobby (noun)
  • dis-traction,
  • re-laxation,
  • dis traction,
  • dis-tractions,
  • re laxations,
  • leisure pursuits,
  • re-laxations,
  • dis tractions,
  • favorite occupations,
  • pet topics,
  • schticks,
  • re laxation.
  •rage (noun)
  • up to the minute,
  • in-thing,
  • INS,
  • NOWS,
  • in-spot,
  • in spots.
  •style (noun)
  • stylishness,
  • smartness,
  • Dressiness,
  • Cosmopolitanism.
  •vogue (noun)
  • pre valence,
  • fashionablenesses,
  • pre valences,
  • pre-valence.
  •whim (noun)
  • dis positions,
  • dis position,
  • dis-position,
  • dis-positions,
  • passing thoughts.

• Other synonyms:

  •adj.
  • instant,
  • prevailing,
  • swinging,
  • more prevalent,
  • common knowledge,
  • current,
  • in progress,
  • in use,
  • in vogue,
  • cutting-edge,
  • in circulation,
  • in the news,
  • going around,
  • in the mainstream,
  • leading-edge,
  • on front burner.
  •n.
  • caprice,
  • couture,
  • craze,
  • crochet,
  • enthusiasm,
  • fashion,
  • feeling,
  • flash in the pan,
  • freak,
  • furor,
  • grabber,
  • hobby,
  • mania,
  • megrim,
  • meteor,
  • monomania,
  • obsession,
  • passion,
  • style,
  • thing,
  • trend,
  • vogue,
  • whim,
  • zeal,
  • Divertissement,
  • Fashionableness,
  • schtick,
  • New Look,
  • hang up,
  • Hips,
  • Leisure Activities,
  • Leisure Activity,
  • divertissements,
  • crochets,
  • TODO,
  • grabbers,
  • dernier cri,
  • the last word,
  • fixed idea,
  • all the rage,
  • the in thing,
  • the latest thing,
  • the thing,
  • favorite occupation,
  • pet topic,
  • avant-gardes,
  • bee in bonnet,
  • big scene,
  • big stink,
  • bug in ear,
  • hangup,
  • hell broke loose,
  • latest wrinkle,
  • leisure pursuit,
  • on the brain,
  • passing thought,
  • the rage,
  • tiger by the tail,
  • to do,
  • latest thing,
  • the latest cry,
  • the latest fad,
  • the newest fashion,
  • brief success,
  • wet squib.
  •v.
  • rage.

Paraphrases for Fad:

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    appliances, CRS, IAS.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    popularity, mania, fever.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    DAF, DFA, ADF.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    fashion, craze, whim, trend, vogue.

Antonyms for Fad:

• n.

  • craze
    simplicity, dislike, dullness, standard, work, tradition, seriousness, hate, calm, boredom.

Fad Sentence Examples:

• We are a long way from the authorities here, but I think we will find out pretty soon that simple dinners have become the fad in Washington, or Paris, and that your marvelous Mrs. Burgoyne is simply following the fashion like all the rest of us.

• Hitherto it had appeared to him more or less of a Yankee fad, unworthy of the attention of an able - bodied man of average intelligence.

Homophones for Fad:

• fadeout, feat, fiftieth, fated, fiat, fat, fete, fatwah, faded, feud, Fatihah, Fet, Fatah, fatty, fete day, food, ft, fatheaded, foetid, faith, fade away, fad diet, fed, Fatiha, fatwa, fifth, fifty, fade out, fitted out, fit, FPD, fathead, fetid, foodie, fifty-two, foot, fit out, feed, fate, fatuity, fda, fado, FTO, fuddy-duddy, fahd, faddy, fade, footed.