Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Fatuous"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Fatuous \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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

fatuous
adj : complacently or inanely foolish [syn: {asinine}, {inane}, {mindless},
{vacuous}]


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