fatuous
Adjective Satellite
- devoid of intelligence
Adj
- Obnoxiously stupid; vacantly silly; content in one's foolishness.
Adjective
- Complacently foolish or silly; smugly stupid.
Examples
- It was a FATUOUS move to pass when his opponent was nearly out of tiles in Scrabble.
Origin / Etymology
From Latin fatuus (“foolish, silly, simple”).
Synonyms
asinine, inane, mindless, vacuous, Boeotian, addlebrained, addlepated, airheaded, ass-brained, bee-brained, beef-witted, beefheaded, beetle-headed, birdbrained, blockheaded, boneheaded, boofheaded, brainless, bubbleheaded, buffle-headed, bullet-headed, cerebrally challenged, childish, chowderheaded, chuckleheaded, crackbrained, cretinous, dense, dented, dim, dim-bulb, dim-headed, dim-witted, doltish, dopey, dozy, drowsy, dull, dull-headed, dull-minded, dull-witted, dumb, dumb as a bag of hammers, dumb as a box of rocks, dumb as a doorknob, dumb as a post, dumb as a sack of hammers, dumb as an ox, dumb as dirt, dumber than a box of rocks, dumber than a rock, dunderheaded, empty-headed, fatheaded, feeble-minded, flea-brained, foolish, fuckwitted, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, half-brained, half-witted, hammer-headed, idiotic, imbecilic, insipid, intellectually challenged, knuckleheaded, lamebrained, lowbrow, lumpish, lunkheaded, mentally challenged, mentally retarded, monosynaptic, moronic, muttonheaded, nitwitted, not the sharpest crayon in the box, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, not the sharpest tool in the shed, numbskulled, oafish, obtuse, peabrained, pratty, pudding-headed, puerile, purblind, quarter-witted, retarded, rockheaded, sharp as a bowling ball, sheep-headed, shit-for-brains, simple, slow, slow-witted, smooth-brained, stolid, stupid, thick, thick as a brick, thick as a plank, thick as a whale omelette, thick as champ, thick as mince, thick as pig shit, thick as two short planks, thick-skulled, thickheaded, thickwitted, unapprehensive, unclever, unintelligent, unsmart, vacant, witless, wooden-headed, wool-headed, woolly-headed, woolly-minded
Scrabble Score: 10
fatuous: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordfatuous: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
fatuous: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary