fatuitousadj.
/fəˈtjuːɪtəs/ Characterized by fatuity.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > besottedness, infatuation > [adjective]
adoted?c1225
cangun?c1225
cangeda1250
foltishc1384
sottedc1386
fond1395
infatuate1471
infonded1567
mally1592
effatuate1600
fatuate1602
fatuous1633
besotted1637
fatuant1641
infatuated1642
affatuated1649
smitten1688
fatuitous1742
fatuated1848
besmitten1873
hipped1895
1742 R. North & M. North Life F. North 261 The Extremity of fatuitous Madness.
1849 C. Brontë Shirley III. vi. 146 I may be the most fatuitous..of men.
1869 J. Ruskin Queen of Air i. 59 In proportion to the degree in which we become narrow in the..conception of our passions..their expression by musical sound becomes broken, fatuitous, and at last impossible.
Derivatives
faˈtuitousness n.
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1727 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II
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adj.1727- republication
- republications
- republicism
- republicrat
- republicrat party
- republicratic
- republics
- republikanischer schutzbund
- republish
- republished
- republisher
- republishers
- republishes
- republishing
- republishment
- repuddling
- repudiable
- repudiant
- repudiate
- repudiated
- repudiates
- repudiating
- repudiation
- repudiationist
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