Adjective: fatuous
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more fatuous |
| Superlative | most fatuous |
Sample Sentences
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Near-synonyms: vacuous; see also Thesaurus:stupid
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Maude Lebowski: Lord. You can imagine where it goes from here.
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The Dude: He fixes the cable?
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Maude: Don't be fatuous, Jeffrey. [1998, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, The Big Lebowski (screenplay):]
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A fatuous love affair can easily result in a fatuous marriage. A couple who hardly know each other and, indeed, may not even really like each other, make a commitment that has little chance of being honoured. [2004, Frank Tallis, Love Sick: Love as a Mental Illness, page 46:]
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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:]
Adjectives inflected like fatuous
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Latin fatuus (“foolish, silly, simple”). See: Latin Adjectives '
fatuus'.