Fatuous \Fat"u*ous\, a. [L. fatuus.]
1. Feeble in mind; weak; silly; stupid; foolish; fatuitous.
--Glanvill.
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2. Without reality; illusory, like the ignis fatuus.
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Thence fatuous fires and meteors take their birth.
--Danham.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
fatuous
adj : complacently or inanely foolish [syn: asinine, inane, mindless,
vacuous]
WordNet (r) 2.0
133 Moby Thesaurus words for "fatuous":
absurd, air-built, airy, apish, asinine, barren, batty, befooled,
beguiled, besotted, blank, blankminded, bootless, brainless,
buffoonish, calm, catchpenny, chimerical, cloud-built, cockeyed,
counterproductive, crazy, credulous, daffy, daft, dazed, dizzy,
doting, dreamlike, dumb, effete, empty, empty-headed, ethereal,
etiolated, fanciful, fatuitous, feckless, flaky, flimsy, fond,
fool, foolheaded, foolish, fribble, fribbling, frivolous, frothy,
fruitless, fuddled, futile, gaga, gaseous, goofy, gossamery,
gulled, hollow, idiotic, idle, illusory, imaginary, imbecile,
inadequate, inane, incogitant, ineffective, ineffectual,
inefficacious, inept, infatuated, inoperative, insane, insensate,
invalid, kooky, light, loony, mad, maudlin, moronic, nirvanic,
nugacious, nugatory, nutty, oblivious, of no force, otiose,
passive, phantomlike, quietistic, rarefied, relaxed, sappy, screwy,
senseless, sentimental, shadowy, shallow, silly, slender, slight,
spirituous, sterile, stupid, subtile, subtle, superficial, tenuous,
thoughtfree, thoughtless, tranquil, trifling, trite, trivial,
unavailing, unideaed, unintellectual, unoccupied, unreal,
unreasoning, unthinking, unwitty, useless, vacant, vacuous, vain,
vapid, vaporous, wacky, weak-minded, wet, windy, witless
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
asinine, inane, mindless, vacuous
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