FAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fad mean? 

• FAD (noun)
  The noun FAD has 1 sense:

1. an interest followed with exaggerated zeal

  Familiarity information: FAD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An interest followed with exaggerated zeal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

craze; cult; fad; furor; furore; rage

Context example:

it was all the rage that season

Hypernyms ("fad" is a kind of...):

fashion (the latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior)

Derivation:

faddist (a person who subscribes to a variety of fads)

faddy (intensely fashionable for a short time)

 Context examples 

Some of these diets are fad or crash diets that severely restrict calories or the types of food you are allowed to eat.

(Diets, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

DASH is not a fad diet, but a healthy eating plan that supports long-term lifestyle changes.

(DASH ranked Best Diet Overall for eighth year in a row by U.S. News and World Report, National Institutes of Health)

He was the fad of the hour, the adventurer who had stormed Parnassus while the gods nodded.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The unusual salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond my powers to determine.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

What is his particular fad?

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)