fatuous
/ˈfæt.ju.əs/US/ˈfæ.tʃu.əs/
fatuous adjective: obnoxiously stupid; vacantly silly; content in one's foolishness.
Adjective
fatuous (comparative more fatuous, superlative most fatuous)
- Obnoxiously stupid; vacantly silly; content in one's foolishness.
- Near-synonyms: vacuous; see also Thesaurus:stupid
- Maude Lebowski: Lord. You can imagine where it goes from here.
The Dude: He fixes the cable?
Maude: Don't be fatuous, Jeffrey.1998, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, The Big Lebowski (screenplay)
- Synonyms:
- vacuous, addlebrained, addlepated, airheaded, bee-brained, beef-witted, soft, beefheaded, beetle-headed, birdbrained
fatuous meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
fatuous in Tamil
- முட்டாள்தனமான, யோசனையற்ற, மதிகெட்ட, அறிவற்ற, பேதைமையான, மாயையான
fatuous in Urdu
- بدھو, خبطی, پگلوٹ
fatuous in Bengali
- বোকা, অর্থহীন, নির্বোধের মতো
fatuous in Malayalam
- മന്ദബുദ്ധിയായ, മൂഢമായ, മതികെട്ട, ദുർബ്ബലമായ
More languagesFewer languages
- fatuous in Kannada
- ಬೆಪ್ಪುತನದ, ತಿಳಿಗೇಡಿಯಾದ, ಮಂದ ಬುದ್ಧಿಯ, ಮತಿಹೀನ
- fatuous in Indonesian
- bodoh, tolol, dungu
Examples of fatuous in a sentence
- A fatuous love affair can easily result in a fatuous marriage.2004, Frank Tallis, Love Sick: Love as a Mental Illness, page 46:
- While much publicity is given to fatuous 'reversing Beeching' ideas, the reality is that the real investment is focused on expanding the road network - [...].2020 December 2, Christian Wolmar, “Wales offers us glimpse of an integrated transport policy”, in Rail, page 56:
Synonyms of fatuous
- vacuous
- addlebrained
- addlepated
- airheaded
- bee-brained
- beef-witted
- soft
- beefheaded
- beetle-headed
- birdbrained
30 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- blockheaded
- Boeotian
- boneheaded
- boofheaded
- braindead
- brainless
- bubbleheaded
- buffle-headed
- bullet-headed
- cerebrally challenged
- childish
- chowderheaded
- chuckleheaded
- crackbrained
- cretinous
- daft
- dense
- dented
- dim-bulb
- dim-headed
- dim-witted
- dim
- doltish
- dopey
- dozy
- drowsy
- dull-headed
- dull-minded
- dull-witted
- dull
Forms of fatuous
| comparative | more fatuous |
|---|---|
| superlative | most fatuous |
Origin of fatuous
From Latin fatuus (“foolish, silly, simple”).
Words formed from fatuous
Questions about fatuous
- What does fatuous mean?
- Fatuous means obnoxiously stupid; vacantly silly; content in one's foolishness.
- What is fatuous in Tamil?
- Fatuous in Tamil is முட்டாள்தனமான, யோசனையற்ற, மதிகெட்ட. See Fatuous meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use fatuous in a sentence?
- A fatuous love affair can easily result in a fatuous marriage.
- What part of speech is fatuous?
- Fatuous is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce fatuous?
- Fatuous is pronounced /ˈfæt.ju.əs/ (UK).
Words near fatuous in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: fatuous (page history and authors); fatuous (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fatuous (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Fatuous (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fatuous (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fatuous (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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