Definition of Fatuous

1. Adjective. Devoid of intelligence.


Definition of Fatuous

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

Definition of Fatuous

1. Adjective. Obnoxiously stupid, vacantly silly, content in one's foolishness. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fatuous

1. smugly stupid [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fatuous

fatty infiltration
fatty kidney
fatty layer of superficial fascia
fatty liver
fatty liver syndrome
fatty metamorphosis
fatty oil
fatty renal capsule
fatty series
fatty stool
fatty streak
fatty tissue
fatuities
fatuitous
fatuity
fatuous (current term)
fatuously
fatuousness
fatuousnesses
fatwa
fatwaed
fatwah
fatwahed
fatwahing
fatwahs
fatwaing
fatware
fatwas
fatwood
fatwoods

Literary usage of Fatuous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Practice of the Court of Session: On the Basis of the Late Mr. Darling's by Charles Farquhar Shand, James Johnston Darling (1848)
"S. 426, (NE 396); aff. on merits, 3 Mar. 1830, iv. WS 28. See Hogg v. Landles, supra p. 149. SECT. V. fatuous AND FURIOUS PERSONS. ..."

2. The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland [1807-1868/69] by Great Britain, George Kettilby Rickards (1841)
"shall at the Time named proceed to take Evidence of the Condition of such furious or fatuous Person or Lunatic, and upon being satisfied that he or she is ..."

3. St. Thomas of Canterbury: His Death and Miracles by Edwin Abbott Abbott (1898)
"... that error of fatuous antiquity that ' Nothing can be reduced to nothing," which proposition, says Boetius, none of his contemporaries dared to dispute. ..."

4. Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne (1903)
"... great travellers—Complimentary cannon—The last infirmity of noble republican minds—The golden promise: the spiritual fulfilment—fatuous serenity— Past ..."

5. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Proverbs by Crawford Howell Toy (1899)
"The fool, that is, having no inkling of what is wise and noble, has fatuous satisfaction in following out and manifesting his intellectual and moral ..."

6. Life and Letters of Edwin Lawrence Godkin by Edwin Lawrence Godkin (1907)
"He discharges platitudes of the most fatuous kind at my head as a newspaper editor, at intervals of about two minutes, with a solemn look; eg "Mr. Godkin, ..."

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