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FATUOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fatuous mean? 

FATUOUS (adjective)
  The adjective FATUOUS has 1 sense:

1. extremely silly or stupidplay

  Familiarity information: FATUOUS used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FATUOUS (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Extremely silly or stupid

Synonyms:

asinine; fatuous; inane

Similar:

stupid (lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity)

Derivation:

fatuity; fatuousness (a ludicrous folly)


 Context examples 


I am, of course, a mere student, said I, with a fatuous smile, hardly more, I might say, than an earnest inquirer.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"The magazine editors are not wholly fatuous. I know that. And I'll close with you on the bet. I'll wager anything you want that 'Ephemera' is accepted either on the first or second offering."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Exactly. You may have heard some rather fatuous remarks of Lord John Roxton's which seemed to imply that there was some—some resemblance—

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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