noun
a temporary fashion, notion, manner of conduct, etc., especially one followed enthusiastically by a group.
Origin:
1825–35; noun use of dial. fad to look after things, busy oneself with trifles, back formation from obsolete faddle to play with, fondle. See fiddle
1825–35; noun use of dial. fad to look after things, busy oneself with trifles, back formation from obsolete faddle to play with, fondle. See fiddle
Related forms
fad·like, adjective
Synonyms
craze, vogue, rage.
craze, vogue, rage.
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fad (fæd) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | an intense but short-lived fashion; craze |
| 2. | a personal idiosyncrasy or whim |
| [C19: of uncertain origin] | |
| 'faddish | |
| —adj | |
| 'faddishness | |
| —n | |
| 'faddism | |
| —n | |
| 'faddist | |
| —n | |
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| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| FAD | |
| —n | |
| biochem See also FMN flavin adenine dinucleotide: an ester of riboflavin with ADP that acts as the prosthetic group for many flavoproteins | |
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Word Origin & History
fad
1834, "hobby, pet project;" 1881 as "fashion, craze," perhaps shortened from fiddle-faddle. Or perhaps from Fr. fadaise "trifle, nonsense," ult. from L. fatuus "stupid."
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Medical Dictionary
FAD abbr.
flavin adenine dinucleotide
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Computing Dictionary
FAD definition
["FAD, A Simple and Powerful Database Language", F. Bancilon et al, Proc 13th Intl Conf on VLDB, Brighton, England, Sep 1987].
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FAD
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Example sentences
Entire industries do not go under simply due to a fad or without doing their homework.
Throw in the retro fad and the push to go green and it makes perfect sense.
Optimists, however, argue there may be benefits from today's fad for currency fiddling.
Instead, you get voluminous amounts of recycled ideas rife with the latest buzz words and fad getting approved.
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