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Definition of fatuous in English: fatuousadjective ˈfatjʊəsˈfætʃuəs Silly and pointless. 愚蠢的；无聊的 无聊的议论。 Example sentencesExamples - Now, as the repeated and often fatuous stories against the government in recent months show, the press has stopped playing the game.
- The comparisons are being made, fatuous as they are.
- They explore their sexuality, marveling at their youthful, maturing bodies, and exchanging fatuous remarks.
- Upon her release for serving the full twelve years of her fatuous sentence we are going to have to live with the consequences of that decision.
- Gentle reader, let me assure you that this is fatuous nonsense.
- Her carefree sloganeering can be maddeningly fatuous, occasionally making the reader feel as though he or she is stuck behind a car covered in bumper stickers.
- I'd say the latter is the slightly more fatuous article.
- This produced a fatuous contentment, which from the beginning led producers to view TV as a threat.
- The claim that this system of traffic calming ‘owes much of its unpopularity to its success’ is a also a fatuous statement.
- His naive, fatuous smile alone would have aroused their ire before he opened his vainglorious mouth.
- Such fatuous nonsense afforded us countless hours of mirth; who says religion has no value?
- New Zealand was a very nice country to live in and it was not a myth or a fatuous slogan that it was ‘a great place to bring up children’.
- But as we all know from experience, the inarticulate can be shrewd, the fluent fatuous.
- In front of a painting in Florence, I made some fatuous remark to an American with backpack.
- A Victorian campaign to expunge it is likely to be futile, therefore fatuous.
- The fact that we don't find such documents puts the lie to such glib and fatuous justifications for immorality.
- Mountaineering has engendered more fatuous comment than most human pastimes, much of it from mountaineers themselves.
- But lest anyone think I give succour to the nationalists by talk of national futures, let there be no such fatuous interpretation.
- However, based on some of the fatuous comments I've been reading on this topic, we may expect to hear it soon.
- Lurking on the fringe of the group as befitted my junior position, it came to me that I could make a memorable contribution to this rather fatuous debate.
Synonyms silly, foolish, stupid, inane, nonsensical, childish, puerile, infantile, idiotic, brainless, mindless, vacuous, imbecilic, asinine, witless, empty-headed, hare-brained pointless, senseless ridiculous, ludicrous, absurd, preposterous, laughable, risible informal daft, moronic, cretinous, dumb, gormless
DerivativesnounPlural fatuities fəˈtjuːɪtifəˈtuədi These and similarly insulting fatuities are the language of a politician who detests political generalities, works mostly by innocent intuition and who is celebrated by the masses. Example sentencesExamples - It is a statement of such surpassing fatuity that one wonders: is she really that stupid, or does she think we're that stupid?
- To him, the fatuity of the learned judge is an example of our tendency to throw about words that have lost all meaning, even in the mouths of educated people.
- No words can convey the depths of his fatuity, except his own.
- He drew astonished gasps from the audience and co-panellists alike for the fatuity and pomposity of his contributions.
adverbˈfatjʊəsliˈfætʃuəsli It is hardly surprising that they find nothing to identify with in a project that so fatuously sings the praises of a future dominated by big business. Example sentencesExamples - I smiled fatuously at him and he nearly dropped his glass as he looked at us all.
- But it's the same little fellow, beaming somewhat fatuously and raising the staff in blessing like a young bishop.
- But they also describe it, fatuously, as ‘comprehensive’.
- I really can't remember when I last saw a more fatuously featureless feature.
nounˈfatjʊəsnəsˈfætʃuəsnəs In the darkest days of the Dark Ages, no superstition surpassed this one for silliness, fatuousness, or just plain ignorance. Example sentencesExamples - The only point in rehearsing these notorious facts, which deter investment and inhibit economic growth, is to mark the fatuousness of proposals to solve everybody's problems, ours and theirs, by pouring in more foreign aid.
- It's a comic performance and it's the character's fatuousness which makes it so funny.
- That makes you understand the fatuousness of nationalism because you can't tell the nationality of a bone.
- The same fate befell others who similarly attempted to contribute to moral, political, and ethical debate beyond the fatuousness and anonymity of talk-back radio.
OriginEarly 17th century: from Latin fatuus 'foolish' + -ous. fade from Middle English: The early sense of fade was ‘grow weak, waste away’. The word comes from Old French fade ‘dull, insipid’, probably a blend of Latin fatuus ‘silly, insipid’ (source of E17th fatuous), and vapidus ‘vapid’ (see vapour). The sense ‘lose freshness’ (faded colours) developed in English alongside the meaning ‘lose strength’.
Definition of fatuous in US English: fatuousadjectiveˈfaCHo͞oəsˈfætʃuəs Silly and pointless. 愚蠢的；无聊的 无聊的议论。 Example sentencesExamples - Her carefree sloganeering can be maddeningly fatuous, occasionally making the reader feel as though he or she is stuck behind a car covered in bumper stickers.
- Such fatuous nonsense afforded us countless hours of mirth; who says religion has no value?
- Mountaineering has engendered more fatuous comment than most human pastimes, much of it from mountaineers themselves.
- I'd say the latter is the slightly more fatuous article.
- Now, as the repeated and often fatuous stories against the government in recent months show, the press has stopped playing the game.
- But as we all know from experience, the inarticulate can be shrewd, the fluent fatuous.
- His naive, fatuous smile alone would have aroused their ire before he opened his vainglorious mouth.
- New Zealand was a very nice country to live in and it was not a myth or a fatuous slogan that it was ‘a great place to bring up children’.
- This produced a fatuous contentment, which from the beginning led producers to view TV as a threat.
- Upon her release for serving the full twelve years of her fatuous sentence we are going to have to live with the consequences of that decision.
- The claim that this system of traffic calming ‘owes much of its unpopularity to its success’ is a also a fatuous statement.
- They explore their sexuality, marveling at their youthful, maturing bodies, and exchanging fatuous remarks.
- Gentle reader, let me assure you that this is fatuous nonsense.
- But lest anyone think I give succour to the nationalists by talk of national futures, let there be no such fatuous interpretation.
- The comparisons are being made, fatuous as they are.
- However, based on some of the fatuous comments I've been reading on this topic, we may expect to hear it soon.
- A Victorian campaign to expunge it is likely to be futile, therefore fatuous.
- In front of a painting in Florence, I made some fatuous remark to an American with backpack.
- The fact that we don't find such documents puts the lie to such glib and fatuous justifications for immorality.
- Lurking on the fringe of the group as befitted my junior position, it came to me that I could make a memorable contribution to this rather fatuous debate.
Synonyms silly, foolish, stupid, inane, nonsensical, childish, puerile, infantile, idiotic, brainless, mindless, vacuous, imbecilic, asinine, witless, empty-headed, hare-brained
OriginEarly 17th century: from Latin fatuus ‘foolish’ + -ous. |