FADDISTS Synonyms: 59 Similar and Opposite Words

faddists

noun

plural of faddist

as in enthusiasts

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Noun

The boat show brings together sailing enthusiasts, prospective buyers and industry professionals to celebrate life on the water and explore the latest in sailing, the news release said.

— Michelle Richardson, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026
Meanwhile, a 2026 poll by Garage Gym Experiment, an online community for home fitness enthusiasts, found that 44% of respondents expected to spend at least $1,000 on their home gyms this year.

— Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of enthusiasts

Noun

Also not surprisingly, Ohtani did little to reward his devotees.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026
The show was both a touchstone and a lightning rod for its depiction of a group of millennial young women in New York, with its vocal haters often louder than its many devotees.

— Andrew Dalton, Chicago Tribune, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of devotees

Noun

Local breeders, known as fanciers, would release their birds far from home and measure the time and distance covered to return.

— Sharyn Alfonsi, CBS News, 26 Apr. 2026
Famous people were frequently asked to be judges, to lend cachet to the events—novelists Émile Zola and Pierre Loti were two of them (both writers were cat-fanciers, so were well qualified to be judges).

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Dec. 2025

Definition of fanciers

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Today’s top dermatologists and skin-care aficionados swear by the below SPFs to shield against UVA and UVB damage while keeping pores congestion-free.

— Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 13 Oct. 2026
Many media companies have been experimenting with bespoke telecasts aimed at a narrower niche of viewers, like young women or sports-stats aficionados.

— Brian Steinberg, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of aficionados

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Tucker recommends foods like extra virgin olive oil, fatty fish like salmon, nuts and seeds — all staples of both diets, which also encourage eating whole grains, chicken, and plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables.

— Maggie Ryan, Flow Space, 14 Oct. 2026
If your kidneys are healthy, eating magnesium-rich foods like nuts, seeds, beans, whole grains, and leafy vegetables is unlikely to cause toxicity.

— MD Published, Verywell Health, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of nuts

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The residents occasionally gather in a disused rec center but the meetings devolve into rants about immigrants, junkies, thugs and vigilantism.

— Jessica Kiang, Variety, 26 Sep. 2026
As the club’s name implies, car junkies will get an opportunity to see lots of Model T’s and other antique autos from more than a century ago on display.

— Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of junkies

Noun

At its center is a youngish man named Bob Arctor, an undercover cop who starts using drugs in order to infiltrate a house full of addicts in Southern California.

— Hilton Als, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
The problem with just arresting addicts is there’s nowhere to take them.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2026

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