Fatuous

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Foolish or silly, especially in a smug or self-satisfied way: "'Don't you like the poor lonely bachelor?' he yammered in a fatuous way” ( Sinclair Lewis). See Synonyms at foolish.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Obnoxiously stupid, vacantly silly, content in one's foolishness.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Feeble in mind; weak; silly; stupid; foolish; fatuitous.
  • adj. Without reality; illusory, like the ignis fatuus.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Foolish; foolishly conceited; feebly or stupidly self-sufficient; unconsciously silly: applied both to persons and to their acts.
  • Idiotic; demented; imbecile.
  • Unreal; illusory, like the ignis fatuus.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. devoid of intelligence
  • Equivalent
    foolish   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    weak    silly    stupid    foolish    fatuitous    deranged    puerile    childish    insipid    imbecilic   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    idiotic    childish    foolish    naive    smug    irrational    maudlin    superstitious    thoughtless    condescend