fad suggests caprice in taking up or in dropping a fashion.
last year's fad is over
rage and craze stress intense enthusiasm in adopting a fad.
Cajun food was the rage nearly everywhere for a time
crossword puzzles once seemed just a passing craze but have lasted
Examples of rage in a Sentence
Noun
Her note to him was full of rage.
He was shaking with rage.
She was seized by a murderous rage.
His rages rarely last more than a few minutes. Verb
She raged about the injustice of their decision.
The manager raged at the umpire.
A storm was raging outside, but we were warm and comfortable indoors.
The fire raged for hours.
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Noun
On another occasion, Meredith pointed a gun at a driver during a road-rage incident.—Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2025 Road rage sometimes turns deadly.—Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
As war rages on the Western Front, the Choral Society in Ramsden, Yorkshire has lost most of its men to the army.—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2025 The latest poster shows a well, fire raging, with a figure leaping outward.—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 25 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for rage
Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin rabia, from Latin rabies rage, madness, from rabere to be mad; akin to Sanskrit rabhas violence
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