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faddy

faddy adjective: having characteristics of a fad.

Adjective

faddy (comparative faddier, superlative faddiest)

  1. Having characteristics of a fad.
  2. fussy, having particular tastes or whims
    • He's a faddy eater.
    • In dress now, for example! We are faddy people, you know—faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. Heh?1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Copper Beeches (story)

faddy meaning in Malayalam

faddy in Malayalam

faddish, fussy, finicky
അരോചകമാംവിധം ഇഷ്ടാനിഷ്ടങ്ങളുള്ള, പ്രത്യേക ഇഷ്ടാനിഷ്ടങ്ങളുള്ള, തൃപ്തിപ്പെടുത്താനാവാത്ത, വിചിത്രരുചിയായ, നിസ്സാരകാര്യത്തിനു വലിയ ബഹളമുണ്ടാക്കുന്ന, നിസ്സാരകാര്യങ്ങളിൽ അധികം നിഷ്ഠയുള്ള

Synonyms of faddy

Forms of faddy

comparativefaddier
superlativefaddiest

Origin of faddy

From fad + -y.

Words formed from faddy

Questions about faddy

What does faddy mean?
Faddy means having characteristics of a fad.
What is faddy in Malayalam?
Faddy in Malayalam is അരോചകമാംവിധം ഇഷ്ടാനിഷ്ടങ്ങളുള്ള, പ്രത്യേക ഇഷ്ടാനിഷ്ടങ്ങളുള്ള, തൃപ്തിപ്പെടുത്താനാവാത്ത. See Faddy meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is faddy?
Faddy is an adjective.

Words near faddy in the dictionary

  1. faddists
  2. faddle
  3. faddled
  4. faddles
  5. faddling
  6. faddy
  7. fade
  8. fade away
  9. fade in
  10. fade ins
  11. fade out

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Adapted from Wiktionary: faddy (page history and authors); faddy (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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