Definitions for fads

fads fad

Spelling: [fad]
IPA: /fæd/

Fads is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 30 anagrams from letters in fads (adfs).

Definitions for fads

noun

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

Origin of fads

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 fads

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for fads
Scrable

7

Words with friends

7

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