Meaning of FATUOUS
| Pronunciation: | | 'fachoous
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| | Definition: | | [adj] complacently or inanely foolish |
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| | Synonyms: | | asinine, foolish, inane, mindless, vacuous |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Fat"u*ous\, a. [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.
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