Fatuous Definition

făcho͝o-əs
adjective
Complacently stupid or inane; silly; foolish.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Fatuous

  • From Latin fatuus (“foolish, silly, simple”).

    From Wiktionary

  • From Latin fatuus

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Fatuous Sentence Examples

  • This is going to sound completely fatuous, but it's my honest answer.

  • Given what the NHS was, it is almost fatuous to say all the money has gone in, but nothing's happened.

  • Behind its fatuous claims of " managed migration ", the Government is starting to worry.

  • For all his limitations I cannot imagine Blair saying anything so fatuous.

  • He describes his growing love of this country with an excited sense of wonder that never becomes fatuous.

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