| 单词 | faddish |
| 释义 | faddish (once / 117023 pages) adj Something that's faddish is in style, often for a brief length of time. Flapper dresses and bobbed hair were faddish in the 1920's, and long hair and bell bottoms were faddish in the 1960's and 70's. Among elementary school kids, it was faddish in the early 2000's to collect and trade Pokemon cards. The adjective faddish comes from the word fad, which was coined in the 1880's, either from fiddle-faddle or from the Latin word for "stupid," fatuus. WORD FAMILYfaddish: faddishly+/fad: faddish, faddist, faddy, fads/faddist: faddists USAGE EXAMPLESThe premium was a reasonable 20 percent, but online gaming is faddish. New York Times(Dec 02, 2016) What might seem faddish could in fact be economists piling in to help shed light on the discipline’s darkest corners. Economist(Nov 24, 2016) The presumption — then and now — is that pop is a rootless music attached only to the faddish present. Washington Post(Oct 27, 2016) adj intensely fashionable for a short time Syn faddy fashionable, stylish being or in accordance with current social fashions |
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