faddist

noun

Definition of faddistnext
as in enthusiast

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for faddist
  1. enthusiast
  2. lover
  3. devotee
  4. maniac
  5. fanatic
  6. junkie
  7. addict
  8. freak
Noun
  • Whatever your nonfiction area of interest happens to be — serial killers, cult leaders, athletes, con men or exotic animal enthusiasts — there’s probably several dozen documentaries available for viewing a few button-clicks away.
    Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Amazon has so many after-Christmas deals happening right now for campers, hikers, and outdoor enthusiasts.
    Anne Taylor, Travel + Leisure, 26 Dec. 2024
Definition of enthusiast
Noun
  • The Bob Dylan that the world fell in love with was a thinker, a joker, a fighter, and sometimes a lover.
    Al Shipley, SPIN, 25 Dec. 2024
  • But Tavitian, while a lover of fine wine, especially Burgundy, was not born to the manor.
    Ted Loos, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of lover
Noun
  • The braided and beaded trinkets are woven with messages of kindness, song lyrics or inside jokes among her devotees, who cluster in venue aisles and interminable merchandise lines at concerts to trade as part of their own secret society.
    Alexis Simmerman, Austin American-Statesman, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Earlier this year, wellness devotees largely hailing from California sought out raw milk contaminated with bird flu in the hopes that drinking it would give them antibodies.
    Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2024
Definition of devotee
Noun
  • Accordingly, Slow Horses has worked hard to feed into his persona, offering a slow trickle of wordless shots or small scenes of Harkness while gassing up his reputation as an assassin, a terrorist, and an all-around maniac.
    Scott Tobias, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2024
  • And finally, Matador is readying the next batch of catalog reissues from legendary psychedelic/psychotic maniacs Butthole Surfers.
    Jason Pettigrew, SPIN, 21 Nov. 2024
Definition of maniac
Noun
  • Such is the question facing fragrance fanatics everywhere — and for good reason.
    Emily Burns, WWD, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Luckily for holiday movie fanatics, the Cincinnati connections don't stop on Turkey Day.
    Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of fanatic
Noun
  • The writer-director is more than a murder-mystery junkie.
    A.A. Dowd, Chron, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Kingsbury is a football junkie who’s going to walk away with great on-the-job experience and reportedly about $30 million after getting sacked with several years left on his contract.
    Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 10 Jan. 2023
Definition of junkie
Noun
  • At first, everyone’s feeling a bit Grinchy because Ginny won’t serve Christmas Eve dinner until the sweetheart of the family, the recovering heroin addict Johnny (Christopher Sears), arrives with his friend and fellow N.A. member Loren (Barbie Ferreira).
    Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
  • The left always chooses career violent criminals and/or drug addicts as their heroes & martyrs, and communists anarchist like AOC blow the dog whistle.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2024
Definition of addict
Noun
  • What prompted the freak-out was Netflix’s warning that growth in the first part of 2022 would be slowing down — way down, as in nearly half of the 2021 Q1 growth.
    Vulture, Vulture, 28 Jan. 2022
  • The latest episode of the Fox first responder series saw a freak storm system wreak havoc at a carnival, particularly for a newly single dad, Trevor (Lucifer's D.B. Woodside), who had to be rescued by the 126 twice in one day.
    Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 25 Jan. 2023
Definition of freak
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