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noun fadfæd 1An intense and widely shared enthusiasm for something, especially one that is short-lived; a craze. （尤指短暂和无根据的）时尚；狂热 some regard green politics as no more than the latest fad Example sentencesExamples - It is really quite wonderful, and I truly hope it is the beginning of a trend, not a short-lived fad.
- The digital age probably has produced more fads in its short life than any other human endeavor in a comparable time span.
- Because of that, they captured trends and fads that were happening at the moment more accurately than movies that took a year to make.
- What started off as a fad among stamp enthusiasts has now grown into a veritable cult.
- I think there are fads and fashions in television as in other modes of life, so it is quite possible that this particular type of reality television will fade away, to be replaced by something not so dissimilar.
- He will be looking at fitness as a career, fitness assessment and the psychology of exercise, to encourage people to have realistic fitness goals instead of fads and quick fixes.
- The family-owned auction firm has built its success on the excesses associated with economic fads and stock-market bubbles.
- And what happened to the fashion fad for biodegradable packaging?
- I tend to sit in my own corner and do what I enjoy doing without too much concern with the latest fad, style or trend.
- This is to say, unlike the products of the popular culture, social norms do not bend easily to transient tastes or the latest fads.
- They must invest in style and model change in order to maintain market share in industries where fashions and fads quickly come and go.
- Hula hoops and pet rocks were fads; personal computers and cellular telephones are trends that are changing the way people live.
- But by definition, all fads fade, and even Calvin acknowledges that scooter mania has probably already peaked.
- Following on from the recent blog fad, I will share with you the last 10 songs I played on my i-Pod.
- To me, fashion is what looks good, not the latest craze or fad.
- This is the latest diet fad to play on many people's insecurity about their bodies.
- Other big sellers included micro scooters, the fad which swept through the country in 2000 and a favourite with young and old alike.
- A fad is a short lived mania, of no apparent rationale that in retrospect looks pretty silly.
- John Updike, John Irving and the redoubtable Mailer believed the white-suited novelist had become overly concerned with the passing fads of the social scene.
- Unlike more transitory fads and fashions, however, financial manias and panics have real and lasting economic consequences.
Synonyms craze, vogue, trend, fashion, mode, enthusiasm, passion, infatuation, love, obsession, mania, rage, compulsion, fixation, fetish, weakness, fancy, taste, novelty, whim, fascination, preoccupation informal thing, latest - 1.1 An arbitrary like or dislike.
his fads about the type of coffee he must have 他对自己所喝咖啡品种的苛求。 Example sentencesExamples - And it really offends me when people assume my choice is made out of a fad or lack of research.
- "It's a sort of fad of his to eat nothing but fish, and he's very proud of catching his own."
- Where do these seemingly arbitrary fads come from?
Synonyms whim, whimsy, vagary, fancy, notion, freak, humour, impulse, quirk, eccentricity, foible, crotchet, urge
Derivativesadjective ˈfadɪʃˈfædɪʃ Intensely fashionable or popular for a short period of time. superficial, faddish approaches to spirituality Example sentencesExamples - tastes in flavoured coffee are so faddish
- It was generally the younger trendier folk, the ones who wander around in chocolate coloured trainers on dress-down Fridays, but this new faddish footwear had permeated my workplace without me noticing.
- This rather faddish enthusiasm for Monet during the 1970s matured into the deep-rooted and near-universal approval that greets any mention of Monet's name today.
- At the age of 18, after she appeared on the cover of Italian Vogue with a monk-like red crop and no eyebrows, she was dubbed ‘Le Freak’ and hailed as the frontrunner for a faddish new concept in beauty - the ugly model.
adverb After a viewing of the film, I was tempted to write the director off as a charlatan, a faddishly cynical artist. Example sentencesExamples - Melatonin, a powerful, poorly understood hormone faddishly popular as a sleep aid, may in fact be the last thing you should take if you want a restful night.
- Although assailed by some for being too canonical and by others for faddishly expanding the reading list, the anthology has prevailed over the years.
noun Suw equates the faddishness of social network offerings with the Rubik's Cube, which came and went once people got bored with twisting the object without getting anywhere. Example sentencesExamples - Knowing that she is not a fashionable writer has only made it easier to be loyal to her particular form of truth telling: She scorns faddishness, and deploys, in its place, a relentless moral scrutiny.
- ‘What can happen very often is that things become trendy, and there is a certain faddishness in the [cordial] category,’ he says.
noun ˈfadɪz(ə)mˈfæˌdɪzəm mass noun1A tendency to follow short-lived fads or crazes. his constantly changing belief systems reveal hypocrisy and political faddism - 1.1 A tendency to have many arbitrary likes and dislikes.
Example sentencesExamples - Food faddism in California has reached new heights with reported outbreaks of ‘orthorexia’ - an enthusiasm for ‘pure’ eating that ranges from raw vegetable abuse to people who insist on ordering lunch in a particular colour.
- When the National Commission on Excellence in Education began its deliberations in 1981, the public was already reacting against the pedagogical faddism and extremism of the 1970s.
- As one of the speakers promises, it will help manufacturers fight all those ‘nonessential’ demands from consumers to know what exactly they are eating - demands stemming simply from ‘curiosity, faddism and activists’.
- food faddism
noun ˈfadɪstˈfædəst An intense enthusiast or advocate of something, especially a craze or idea that is short-lived. Example sentencesExamples - But educational faddists are pushing hard to reduce or even eliminate homework from grammar and secondary schools.
- There are food faddists, and quacks in the medical field, and persons who oppose fluoridation of water.
- She liked butter and said that faddists who wanted to cut it completely out of people's diets were ‘stupid.’
OriginMid 19th century (originally dialect): probably the second element of fidfad, contraction of fiddle-faddle. Compare with faddy. fiddle from Old English: In Old English fiddle was the usual word for a stringed instrument like a violin, based on Latin vitulari ‘to celebrate, be joyful’, which may come from Vitula, the name of a Roman goddess of joy and victory. In the sense ‘to swindle’ fiddle was first used in the 1630s. The connection with the instrument probably came from the idea that the ‘fiddler’ or player could make people ‘dance to his tune’. Expressions like fiddle-de-dee and fiddle-faddle, meaning ‘nonsense’, come from the idea of violin-playing being a trivial or pointless exercise, and in turn fiddle-faddle is the origin of fad. When we criticize someone for concerning themselves with trivial affairs while ignoring serious matters, we may say that they are fiddling while Rome burns. This looks back to a story about the Roman emperor Nero. According to one historian, when Rome suffered from a disastrous fire Nero reacted by singing a song about the fall of Troy and accompanying himself on some instrument—not a fiddle, which had not been invented then. To play second fiddle is to take a less important role. The idea here is that you are there to support the person taking the leading part.
Rhymesad, add, Allahabad, bad, Baghdad, bedad, begad, cad, Chad, clad, dad, egad, forbade, gad, glad, grad, had, lad, mad, pad, plaid, rad, Riyadh, sad, scad, shad, Strad, tad, trad abbreviation Biochemistry Flavin adenine dinucleotide, a coenzyme derived from riboflavin and important in various metabolic reactions.
nounfadfæd An intense and widely shared enthusiasm for something, especially one that is short-lived and without basis in the object's qualities; a craze. （尤指短暂和无根据的）时尚；狂热 prairie restoration is the latest gardening fad in the Midwest Example sentencesExamples - They must invest in style and model change in order to maintain market share in industries where fashions and fads quickly come and go.
- Other big sellers included micro scooters, the fad which swept through the country in 2000 and a favourite with young and old alike.
- John Updike, John Irving and the redoubtable Mailer believed the white-suited novelist had become overly concerned with the passing fads of the social scene.
- To me, fashion is what looks good, not the latest craze or fad.
- It is really quite wonderful, and I truly hope it is the beginning of a trend, not a short-lived fad.
- I think there are fads and fashions in television as in other modes of life, so it is quite possible that this particular type of reality television will fade away, to be replaced by something not so dissimilar.
- But by definition, all fads fade, and even Calvin acknowledges that scooter mania has probably already peaked.
- Following on from the recent blog fad, I will share with you the last 10 songs I played on my i-Pod.
- The digital age probably has produced more fads in its short life than any other human endeavor in a comparable time span.
- Hula hoops and pet rocks were fads; personal computers and cellular telephones are trends that are changing the way people live.
- And what happened to the fashion fad for biodegradable packaging?
- This is the latest diet fad to play on many people's insecurity about their bodies.
- Unlike more transitory fads and fashions, however, financial manias and panics have real and lasting economic consequences.
- Because of that, they captured trends and fads that were happening at the moment more accurately than movies that took a year to make.
- A fad is a short lived mania, of no apparent rationale that in retrospect looks pretty silly.
- What started off as a fad among stamp enthusiasts has now grown into a veritable cult.
- The family-owned auction firm has built its success on the excesses associated with economic fads and stock-market bubbles.
- This is to say, unlike the products of the popular culture, social norms do not bend easily to transient tastes or the latest fads.
- He will be looking at fitness as a career, fitness assessment and the psychology of exercise, to encourage people to have realistic fitness goals instead of fads and quick fixes.
- I tend to sit in my own corner and do what I enjoy doing without too much concern with the latest fad, style or trend.
Synonyms craze, vogue, trend, fashion, mode, enthusiasm, passion, infatuation, love, obsession, mania, rage, compulsion, fixation, fetish, weakness, fancy, taste, novelty, whim, fascination, preoccupation
OriginMid 19th century (originally dialect): probably the second element of fidfad, contraction of fiddle-faddle. Compare with faddy. abbreviation Biochemistry Flavin adenine dinucleotide, a coenzyme derived from riboflavin and important in various metabolic reactions.
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