Definitions for FAD

FAD fad

Spelling: [fad]
IPA: /fæd/

Fad is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 17 anagrams from letters in FAD (adf).

Definitions for FAD

noun

  1. a temporary fashion, notion, manner of conduct, etc., especially one followed enthusiastically by a group.

Origin of FAD

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

Examples for FAD

I just wanted to work, and thought it was a fad that would go away.

We started off wearing stopwatches as a fad, and one day, this lady came through our project selling shower clocks.

I laughed at this fad, and, not thinking him incorrigible I took him into my service.

Every private inclination is a fad, and even fads have their fixed forms.

“Some people talk about how EDM is a fad but it will die when the community dies,” he says.

Naturally, the fad made its way to Dunder Mifflin last season—and Dwight is forced to put an end to it.

I see some man in the East has a fad for breaking the ice in the river and going swimming.

It was a fad of the Doctor's to pass an afternoon on the farm, gathering stones.

For at bottom, atheism is either a fad or a trade or a fatuity.

Since the publication of Elect Mr. Robinson, dystopic fiction has become something of a fad.

Word Value for FAD
Scrable

7

Words with friends

7

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