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—fatuitousness, n./feuh tooh"i teuhs, -tyooh"-/, adj.complacently stupid; foolish.[1725-35; FATUIT(Y) + -OUS]
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Fatuitous — Fa*tu i*tous, a. Stupid; fatuous. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
fatuitous — index fatuous, illusory, opaque Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
fatuitous — adj Sllly, inane, absurd, pointless, foolish, fatuous; asinine, idiotic, Inf. moronic, imbecilic. See fatuous(defs.1, 2) … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
fatuitous — fa·tu·i·tous … English syllables
fatuitous — fəˈtüəd.əs, fə.ˈtyü , üətəs adjective Etymology: fatuity + ous : characterized by fatuity : fatuous … Useful english dictionary
Fatuous — Fat u*ous, a. [L. fatuus.] 1. Feeble in mind; weak; silly; stupid; foolish; fatuitous. Glanvill. [1913 Webster] 2. Without reality; illusory, like the ignis fatuus. [1913 Webster] Thence fatuous fires and meteors take their birth. Danham. [1913… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
illusory — il·lu·so·ry /i lü sə rē, zə rē/ adj: likely to mislead or deceive: false deceptive an illusory plea bargain leading to a longer sentence than expected Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 … Law dictionary
fatuous — I adjective absurd, absurdly foolish, addled, asinine, brainless, deficient in reason, destitute of reason, dumb, fatuitous, fatuus, foolish, idiotic, ill advised, illogical, imbecilic, inane, incapable of managing one s own affairs, inept,… … Law dictionary
opaque — I adjective addlebrained, addleheaded, addlepated, ambiguous, asinine, benighted, bewildering, birdbrained, blind, blockish, boeotian, brainless, cloddish, clouded, cloudy, concealed, confused, confusing, cryptic, dark, dense, difficult,… … Law dictionary
absurd — Synonyms and related words: Pickwickian, a bit thick, a bit thin, abnormal, amusing, anomalous, asinine, balmy, barred, beyond belief, bizarre, childish, closed out, cockamamie, comic, contrary to reason, crazy, curious, daft, disproportionate,… … Moby Thesaurus
