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Adjective

fatuous (comparative more fatuous, superlative most fatuous)

  • Obnoxiously stupid; vacantly silly; content in one’s foolishness.
    • ✤ Synonyms: vacuous; see also Thesaurus: stupid
    • ✤ 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.1
    • ✤ While much publicity is given to fatuous ‘reversing Beeching’ ideas, the reality is that the real investment is focused on expanding the road network - […].2

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈfæt.ju.əs/
  • (General American) IPA: /ˈfæ.tʃu.əs/
  • Audio (Southern England): 🔊

Printed 2026-06-28.

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Footnotes

  1. 2004, Frank Tallis, Love Sick: Love as a Mental Illness, page 46: ↩

  2. 2020 December 2, Christian Wolmar, “Wales offers us glimpse of an integrated transport policy”, in Rail, page 56: ↩

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