FATUOUS

asinine, fatuous, inane

(adjective) extremely silly or stupid

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

fatuous (comparative more fatuous, superlative most fatuous)

Obnoxiously stupid, vacantly silly, content in one's foolishness.

Synonyms

• (obnoxiously stupid): childish, imbecilic, inane, insipid, puerile

Source: Wiktionary


Fat"u*ous, a. Etym: [L. fatuus.]

1. Feeble in mind; weak; silly; stupid; foolish; fatuitous. Glanvill.

2. Without reality; illusory, like the ignis fatuus. Thence fatuous fires and meteors take their birth. Danham.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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