Word Meanings - FATUOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FATUOUS)

• Imbecile
• Foolish
• idiotic
• fatuous

Related words: (words related to FATUOUS)

• IMBECILE
  Destitute of strength, whether of body or mind; feeble; impotent; esp., mentally wea; feeble-minded; as, hospitals for the imbecile and insane. Syn. -- Weak; feeble; feeble-minded; idiotic.
• IDIOTICON
  A dictionary of a peculiar dialect, or of the words and phrases peculiar to one part of a country; a glossary.
• FATUOUS
  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.
• FOOLISHNESS
  1. The quality of being foolish. 2. A foolish practice; an absurdity. The preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness. 1 Cor. i. 18.
• FOOLISH
  1. Marked with, or exhibiting, folly; void of understanding; weak in intellect; without judgment or discretion; silly; unwise. I am a very foolish fond old man. Shak. 2. Such as a fool would do; proceeding from weakness of mind or silliness;
• FOOLISHLY
  In a foolish manner.
• IDIOTIC; IDIOTICAL
  1. Common; simple. Blackwall. 2. Pertaining to, or like, an idiot; characterized by idiocy; foolish; fatuous; as, an idiotic person, speech, laugh, or action.
• IDIOTICALLY
  In a idiotic manner.