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fatuously

Syllables: fat·u·ous·lyUK/ˈfæt.ju.əs.li//ˈfæt͡ʃ.u.əs.li/

fatuously adverb: with smug stupidity or vacuous silliness; idiotically.

Adverb

fatuously (comparative more fatuously, superlative most fatuously)

  1. With smug stupidity or vacuous silliness; idiotically.
    • Will they, like the fellows, judiciously bear a hand in sweeping the stable, or will they fatuously wait to be themselves swept with a besom of destruction?1835, “Reform in the College of Physicians”, in Michael Ryan, editor, London Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. VII, page 153

Synonyms of fatuously

Forms of fatuously

comparativemore fatuously
superlativemost fatuously

Origin of fatuously

From fatuous + -ly.

Questions about fatuously

What does fatuously mean?
Fatuously means with smug stupidity or vacuous silliness; idiotically.
What part of speech is fatuously?
Fatuously is an adverb.
How do you pronounce fatuously?
Fatuously is pronounced /ˈfæt.ju.əs.li/ (UK).

Words near fatuously in the dictionary

  1. fatuities
  2. fatuitous
  3. fatuitousness
  4. fatuity
  5. fatuous
  6. fatuously
  7. fatuousness
  8. fatuousnesses
  9. fatwa
  10. fatwa'd
  11. fatwaed

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