Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. To lose color; to tend from a stronger or brighter color to a more faint shade of the same color, or to lose a color entirely. A green leaf fades and becomes less green or yellow. Those colors are deemed the best, which are least apt to fade
2. To wither, as a plant; to decay.
3. Ye shall be as an oak, whose leaf fadeth. Isaiah 1:1 .
4. To lose strength gradually; to vanish.
5. When the memory is weak, ideas in the mind quickly fade
7. The stars shall fade away.
8. To decay; to perish gradually.
9. We all do fade as a leaf. Isaiah 64:6 .
10. An inheritance that fadeth not away. 1 Peter 1:1 .
11. To decay; to decline; to become poor and miserable.
12. The rich man shall fade away in his ways. James 1:11 .
13. To lose strength, health or vigor; to decline; to grow weaker.
14. To disappear gradually; to vanish.
1. To cause to wither; to wear away; to deprive of freshness or vigor.
2. No winter could his laurels fade
1. Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace.
2. To become fade; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.
To cause to wither; to deprive of freshness or vigor; to wear away.
That has lost freshness, color, or brightness; grown dim.
Father.
1. To suit; to fit; to come close, as the parts of things united. Hence, to have one part consistent with another.
2. To agree; to live in amity.
3. To succeed; to hit.
4. [This word is now vulgar, and improper in elegant writing.]
To fit; to suit; to agree.
Losing color; becoming less vivid; decaying; declining; withering.
1. Loss of color, freshness, or vigor.
2. An Irish dance; also, the burden of a song.
Decay; liableness to decay.
Wearing away; losing color or strength.
Misjudgment Roget’s Thesaurus §481
N. misjudgment, obliquity of judgment, miscalculation, miscomputation, misconception, hasty conclusion, prejudgment, prejudication, prejudice, foregone conclusion, prenotion, prevention, preconception, predilection, prepossession, preapprehension, presumption, assumption, presentiment, fixed idea, preconceived idea, ide fixe, mentis gratissimus error, fool's paradise, esprit de corps, party spirit, partisanship, clannishness, prestige, bias, bigotry, warp, twist, hobby, fad, quirk, crotchet, partiality, infatuation, blind side, mote in the eye, one-sided views, one-track mind, partial views, narrow views, confined views, superficial views, one-sided ideas, partial ideas, narrow ideas, confined ideas, superficial ideas, one-sided conceptions, partial conceptions, narrow conceptions, confined conceptions, superficial conceptions, one-sided notions, partial notions, narrow notions, confined notions, superficial notions, narrow mind, bigotry, odium theologicum, pedantry, hypercriticism, doctrinaire, overestimation, underestimation, ignorance, erroneous assumptions, erroneous data, mistaken assumptions, incorrect assumptions (error) 495
V. misjudge, misestimate, misthink, misconjecture, misconceive, fly in the face of facts, miscalculate, misreckon, miscompute, overestimate, underestimate, prejudge, forejudge, presuppose, presume, prejudicate, dogmatize, have a bias, have only one idea, jurare in verba magistri, run away with the notion, jump to a conclusion, rush to a conclusion, leap to a conclusion, judge hastily, shoot from the hip, jump to conclusions, look only at one side of the shield, view with jaundiced eye, view through distorting spectacles, not see beyond one's nose, dare pondus fumo, get the wrong sow by the ear, give a bias, give a twist, bias, warp, twist, prejudice, prepossess
Adj. misjudging, ill-judging, wrong-headed, prejudiced, jaundiced, shortsighted, purblind, partial, one-sided, superficial, narrow-minded, narrow-souled, mean-spirited, confined, illiberal, intolerant, besotted, infatuated, fanatical, entete, positive, dogmatic, conceited, opinative, opiniative, opinioned, opinionate, opinionative, opinionated, self-opinioned, wedded to an opinion, opinitre, bigoted, crotchety, fussy, impracticable, unreasonable, stupid, credulous, warped, misjudged
Adv. ex parte
Phr. nothing like leather, the wish the father to the thought, wishful thinking, unshakable conviction, "my mind is made up - don't bother me with the facts"
Caprice Roget’s Thesaurus §608
N. caprice, fancy, humor, whim, whimsy, whimsey, whimwham, crotchet, capriccio, quirk, freak, maggot, fad, vagary, prank, fit, flimflam, escapade, boutade, wild-goose chase, capriciousness, kink
V. be capricious, have a maggot in the brain, take it into one's head, strain at a gnat and swallow a camel, blow hot and cold, play fast and loose, play fantastic tricks, tourner casaque
Adj. capricious, erratic, eccentric, fitful, hysterical, full of whims, maggoty, inconsistent, fanciful, fantastic, whimsical, crotchety, kinky, particular, humorsome, freakish, skittish, wanton, wayward, contrary, captious, arbitrary, unconformable, penny wise and pound foolish, fickle, frivolous, sleeveless, giddy, volatile
Adv. by fits and starts, without rhyme or reason
Phr. nil fuit unquain sic inipar sibi, the deuce is in him
Fashion Roget’s Thesaurus §852
N. fashion, style, ton, bon ton|, society, good society, polite society, monde, drawing-room, civilized life, civilization, town, beau monde, high life, court, world, fashionable world, gay world, vanity fair, show, manners, breeding, air, demeanor, savoir faire, gentlemanliness, gentility, decorum, propriety, biensance, conventions of society, mrs. grundy, punctilio, form, formality, etiquette, point of etiquette, dress, custom, mode, vogue, go, rage, prevailing taste, fad, trend, bandwagon, furore, thing, in thing, craze, chic, last word, man of fashion, woman of fashion, man of the world, woman of the world, height of fashion, pink of fashion, star of fashion, glass of fashion, leader of fashion, arbiter elegantiarum, the beautiful people, the fashion set, upper ten thousand, elite, smart set, the four hundred, in crowd
V. be fashionable, be the rage, have a run, pass current, follow the fashion, conform to the fashion, fall in with the fashion, follow the trend, follow the crowd, go with the stream, savoir vivre, savoir faire, keep up appearances, behave oneself, set the fashion, bring in the fashion, give a tone to society, cut a figure in society, keep one's carriage
Adj. fashionable, in fashion, a la mode, comme il faut, admitted in society, admissible in society, presentable, conventional, genteel, well-bred, well mannered, well behaved, well spoken, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, ladylike, civil, polite, polished, refined, thoroughbred, courtly, distingue, unembarrassed, degage, janty, jaunty, dashing, fast, modish, stylish, chic, trendy, recherche, newfangled, all the rage, all the go|, with it, in, faddish, in court, in full dress, in evening dress, en grande tenue
Adv. fashionably, for fashion's sake
Phr. a la francaise, a la parisienne, a l' anglaise, a l' americaine, autre temps autre mauers, chaque pays a sa guise
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15 KJV and 24 BSB verses contain “fad” — showing the first 20. Show all 34 verses (searchable)
But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hairs therein, and if it be not lower than the skin, but be somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:
But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hair in the bright spot, and it be no lower than the other skin, but be somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:
My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
My heart pounds, my strength fails, and even the light of my eyes has faded.
And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low;
when the doors to the street are shut and the sound of the mill fades away, when one rises at the sound of a bird and all the daughters of song grow faint,
For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.
For you will become like an oak whose leaves are withered, like a garden without water.
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass.