fatuousadj.

Brit.

/ˈfatjʊəs/,

/ˈfatʃʊəs/, U.S.

/ˈfætʃ(əw)əs/

Etymology: < Latin fatuus foolish, silly, insipid + -ous suffix.

1. Of persons, their actions, feelings, utterances, etc.: Foolish, vacantly silly, stupid, besotted.

ΘΚΠ

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

1633 W. Struther True Happines 20 Mathematicians are fatuous.

1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 162 What fatuous thing is Fate.

1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing xi. 99 We pity, or laugh at those fatuous extravagants.

1844 C. J. Lever Tom Burke I. ix. 70 A fatuous stupid indifference to everything.

1864 W. H. Ainsworth John Law I. i. iv. 203 The veteran courtier,..fatuous as he was, was not duped by..professions of regard.

1877 J. Morley Crit. Misc. 2nd Ser. 277 The fatuous commonplaces of a philosophic optimism.

1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 33 Roman Senate, in their fatuous disregard for intellect.

2. That is in a state of dementia or imbecility; idiotic. Now rare except in Scots Law.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > mental deficiency > [adjective]

witlessc1000

fonda1400

brainless1434

doitedc1450

feeble-minded1534

half-witted1712

fatuous1773

a screw loose1810

losta1822

balmy1851

a shingle short1852

retardate1912

mental1927

subcultural1931

psychological1952

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > affected with

woodc725

woodsekc890

giddyc1000

out of (by, from, of) wit or one's witc1000

witlessc1000

brainsickOE

amadc1225

lunaticc1290

madc1330

sickc1340

brain-wooda1375

out of one's minda1387

frenetica1398

fonda1400

formada1400

unwisea1400

brainc1400

unwholec1400

alienate?a1425

brainless1434

distract of one's wits1470

madfula1475

furious1475

distract1481

fro oneself1483

beside oneself1490

beside one's patience1490

dementa1500

red-wood?1507

extraught1509

misminded1509

peevish1523

bedlam-ripe1525

straughta1529

fanatic1533

bedlama1535

daft1540

unsounda1547

stark raving (also staring) mad1548

distraughted1572

insane1575

acrazeda1577

past oneself1576

frenzy1577

poll-mad1577

out of one's senses1580

maddeda1586

frenetical1588

distempered1593

distraught1597

crazed1599

diswitted1599

idle-headed1599

lymphatical1603

extract1608

madling1608

distracteda1616

informala1616

far gone1616

crazy1617

March mada1625

non compos mentis1628

brain-crazed1632

demented1632

crack-brained1634

arreptitiousa1641

dementate1640

dementated1650

brain-crackeda1652

insaniated1652

exsensed1654

bedlam-witteda1657

lymphatic1656

mad-like1679

dementative1685

non compos1699

beside one's gravity1716

hyte1720

lymphated1727

out of one's head1733

maddened1735

swivel-eyed1758

wrong1765

brainsickly1770

fatuous1773

derangedc1790

alienated1793

shake-brained1793

crack-headed1796

flighty1802

wowf1802

doitrified1808

phrenesiac1814

bedlamite1815

mad-braineda1822

fey1823

bedlamitish1824

skire1825

beside one's wits1827

as mad as a hatter1829

crazied1842

off one's head1842

bemadded1850

loco1852

off one's nut1858

off his chump1864

unsane1867

meshuga1868

non-sane1868

loony1872

bee-headed1879

off one's onion1881

off one's base1882

(to go) off one's dot1883

locoed1885

screwy1887

off one's rocker1890

balmy or barmy on (or in) the crumpet1891

meshuggener1892

nutty1892

buggy1893

bughouse1894

off one's pannikin1894

ratty1895

off one's trolley1896

batchy1898

twisted1900

batsc1901

batty1903

dippy1903

bugs1904

dingy1904

up the (also a) pole1904

nut1906

nuts1908

nutty as a fruitcake1911

bugged1920

potty1920

cuckoo1923

nutsy1923

puggled1923

blah1924

détraqué1925

doolally1925

off one's rocket1925

puggle1925

mental1927

phooey1927

crackers1928

squirrelly1928

over the edge1929

round the bend1929

lakes1934

ding-a-ling1935

wacky1935

screwball1936

dingbats1937

Asiatic1938

parlatic1941

troppo1941

up the creek1941

screwed-up1943

bonkers1945

psychological1952

out to lunch1955

starkers1956

off (one's) squiff1960

round the twist1960

yampy1963

out of (also off) one's bird1966

out of one's skull1967

whacked out1969

batshit1971

woo-woo1971

nutso1973

out of (one's) gourd1977

wacko1977

off one's meds1986

1773 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. I. i. vii. §48. 139 Fatuous persons, called also idiots..who are entirely deprived of the faculty of reason and have an uniform stupidity and inattention in their manner and childishness in their speech.

1842 J. McGlashan Pract. Notes Jurisdiction & Process Scotl. (ed. 2) §441 When a fatuous or furious person has been cognosced.

1868 Act 31 & 32 Victoria c. 100 §101 Such person shall be deemed insane if he be furious or fatuous.

3. fatuous fire: = ignis fatuus n. So fatuous light, fatuous vapour, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > light emitted under particular conditions > [noun] > phosphorescence > will-o'-the-wisp

fox-fire1483

foolish fire1563

ignis fatuus1563

fool's fire1583

Kit with the canstick or candlestick1584

going fire1596

will-o'-the-wisp1596

meteor1597

firedrake1607

wisp1618

ambulones1621

Dick-a-Tuesday1636

friar's lantern1645

gillian burnt-tail1654

Jill-burnt-tail1654

Jack-o'-lantern1658

fatuous fire1661

wildfire1663

wandering fire or light1667

Jack-a-Lent1680

fairy light1722

spunkie1727

Jill-o'-the-wisp1750

fen-fire1814

fatuus1820

marsh-light1823

feu follet1832

wisp-lighta1847

hob-lantern1847

ghost light1849

elf-fire1855

Peggy-with-her-lantern1855

fatuous light1857–8

marsh-fire1865

swamp fire1903

Min-Min1950

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > optical illusion > [noun] > an optical illusion > ignis fatuus

foolish fire1563

ignis fatuus1563

fool's fire1583

will-o'-the-wisp1596

night-fire1633

Dick-a-Tuesday1636

fatuous vapour1661

fatuus1668

draco volans1675

spunkie1727

fen-fire1814

fatuous fire1845

fatuous light1857–8

1661 A. Brome Songs & Other Poems sig. P4^v Those fatuous Vapors, whose false light Purblinds the World.

1668 J. Denham Poems 181 Thence Fatuus fires and Meteors take their birth.

1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 378 The fatuous fire Of man's weak judgment.

1857–8 E. H. Sears Athanasia iv. 31 A fatuous light that shall lead him astray.

†4. In Latin sense. Tasteless, insipid, vapid.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > insipidity > [adjective]

wallowc897

smatchless?c1225

unsavoury?c1225

fresha1398

savourlessa1398

wearish1398

wershed1398

fond?c1430

unsavoured1435

palled1440

mildc1450

walsh1513

wallowish1548

dead1552

waterish1566

cold1585

flatten1594

seasonless1595

wersha1599

blown1600

flash1601

fatuous1608

tasteless1611

flat1617

insipid1620

ingustable1623

flashy1625

flatted1626

saltless1633

gustless1636

remiss1655

rheumatical1655

untasteable1656

vapid1656

exolete1657

distasted1662

vappous1673

insulse1676

toothless1679

mawkisha1697

intastable1701

waugh1703

impoignant1733

flavourless1736

instimulating1740

deadish1742

mawky1755

brineless1791

wishy-washy1791

keestless1802

shilpit1814

wish-washy1814

sapidless1821

silent1826

slushy1839

bland1878

spendsavour1879

wish-wash1896

dolled1917

spiceless1980

1608 D. Tuvill Ess. Politicke, & Morall f. 8^v Truth and Knowledge..where-with whatsoever is not seasoned, is fatuous and unsavourie.

1624 J. Donne Deuotions ii. 25 Instantly the tast is insipid, and fatuous.

Derivatives

ˈfatuously adv. in a fatuous manner.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > besottedness, infatuation > [adverb]

dotingly1548

besottedly1660

infatuatedly1833

fatuously1876

1876 J. Weiss Wit, Humor, & Shakespeare v. 154 The fair maid [Ophelia] who must be the tenant of this grave so fatuously dug.

1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal I. i. 18 Such wild youths, she told herself, fatuously, generally make the best men.

ˈfatuousness n. the quality or fact of being fatuous; imbecility, stupidity.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > besottedness, infatuation > [noun]

dotery1587

besottedness1628

fatuity1649

infatuation1649

fatuositya1680

fatuousness1874

stuckness1895

amour fou1961

limerence1977

1874 J. Morley On Compromise 21 In both orders alike there is only too much of this kind of fatuousness.

1884 Westmorland Gaz. 1 Nov. 5/1 The..fatuousness of the policy..pursued in South Africa.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	fatuous
释义	fatuousadj. Brit. /ˈfatjʊəs/, /ˈfatʃʊəs/, U.S. /ˈfætʃ(əw)əs/ Etymology: < Latin fatuus foolish, silly, insipid + -ous suffix. 1. Of persons, their actions, feelings, utterances, etc.: Foolish, vacantly silly, stupid, besotted. ΘΚΠ 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 1633 W. Struther True Happines 20 Mathematicians are fatuous. 1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 162 What fatuous thing is Fate. 1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing xi. 99 We pity, or laugh at those fatuous extravagants. 1844 C. J. Lever Tom Burke I. ix. 70 A fatuous stupid indifference to everything. 1864 W. H. Ainsworth John Law I. i. iv. 203 The veteran courtier,..fatuous as he was, was not duped by..professions of regard. 1877 J. Morley Crit. Misc. 2nd Ser. 277 The fatuous commonplaces of a philosophic optimism. 1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 33 Roman Senate, in their fatuous disregard for intellect. 2. That is in a state of dementia or imbecility; idiotic. Now rare except in Scots Law. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > mental deficiency > [adjective] witlessc1000 fonda1400 brainless1434 doitedc1450 feeble-minded1534 half-witted1712 fatuous1773 a screw loose1810 losta1822 balmy1851 a shingle short1852 retardate1912 mental1927 subcultural1931 psychological1952 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > affected with woodc725 woodsekc890 giddyc1000 out of (by, from, of) wit or one's witc1000 witlessc1000 brainsickOE amadc1225 lunaticc1290 madc1330 sickc1340 brain-wooda1375 out of one's minda1387 frenetica1398 fonda1400 formada1400 unwisea1400 brainc1400 unwholec1400 alienate?a1425 brainless1434 distract of one's wits1470 madfula1475 furious1475 distract1481 fro oneself1483 beside oneself1490 beside one's patience1490 dementa1500 red-wood?1507 extraught1509 misminded1509 peevish1523 bedlam-ripe1525 straughta1529 fanatic1533 bedlama1535 daft1540 unsounda1547 stark raving (also staring) mad1548 distraughted1572 insane1575 acrazeda1577 past oneself1576 frenzy1577 poll-mad1577 out of one's senses1580 maddeda1586 frenetical1588 distempered1593 distraught1597 crazed1599 diswitted1599 idle-headed1599 lymphatical1603 extract1608 madling1608 distracteda1616 informala1616 far gone1616 crazy1617 March mada1625 non compos mentis1628 brain-crazed1632 demented1632 crack-brained1634 arreptitiousa1641 dementate1640 dementated1650 brain-crackeda1652 insaniated1652 exsensed1654 bedlam-witteda1657 lymphatic1656 mad-like1679 dementative1685 non compos1699 beside one's gravity1716 hyte1720 lymphated1727 out of one's head1733 maddened1735 swivel-eyed1758 wrong1765 brainsickly1770 fatuous1773 derangedc1790 alienated1793 shake-brained1793 crack-headed1796 flighty1802 wowf1802 doitrified1808 phrenesiac1814 bedlamite1815 mad-braineda1822 fey1823 bedlamitish1824 skire1825 beside one's wits1827 as mad as a hatter1829 crazied1842 off one's head1842 bemadded1850 loco1852 off one's nut1858 off his chump1864 unsane1867 meshuga1868 non-sane1868 loony1872 bee-headed1879 off one's onion1881 off one's base1882 (to go) off one's dot1883 locoed1885 screwy1887 off one's rocker1890 balmy or barmy on (or in) the crumpet1891 meshuggener1892 nutty1892 buggy1893 bughouse1894 off one's pannikin1894 ratty1895 off one's trolley1896 batchy1898 twisted1900 batsc1901 batty1903 dippy1903 bugs1904 dingy1904 up the (also a) pole1904 nut1906 nuts1908 nutty as a fruitcake1911 bugged1920 potty1920 cuckoo1923 nutsy1923 puggled1923 blah1924 détraqué1925 doolally1925 off one's rocket1925 puggle1925 mental1927 phooey1927 crackers1928 squirrelly1928 over the edge1929 round the bend1929 lakes1934 ding-a-ling1935 wacky1935 screwball1936 dingbats1937 Asiatic1938 parlatic1941 troppo1941 up the creek1941 screwed-up1943 bonkers1945 psychological1952 out to lunch1955 starkers1956 off (one's) squiff1960 round the twist1960 yampy1963 out of (also off) one's bird1966 out of one's skull1967 whacked out1969 batshit1971 woo-woo1971 nutso1973 out of (one's) gourd1977 wacko1977 off one's meds1986 1773 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. I. i. vii. §48. 139 Fatuous persons, called also idiots..who are entirely deprived of the faculty of reason and have an uniform stupidity and inattention in their manner and childishness in their speech. 1842 J. McGlashan Pract. Notes Jurisdiction & Process Scotl. (ed. 2) §441 When a fatuous or furious person has been cognosced. 1868 Act 31 & 32 Victoria c. 100 §101 Such person shall be deemed insane if he be furious or fatuous. 3. fatuous fire: = ignis fatuus n. So fatuous light, fatuous vapour, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > light emitted under particular conditions > [noun] > phosphorescence > will-o'-the-wisp fox-fire1483 foolish fire1563 ignis fatuus1563 fool's fire1583 Kit with the canstick or candlestick1584 going fire1596 will-o'-the-wisp1596 meteor1597 firedrake1607 wisp1618 ambulones1621 Dick-a-Tuesday1636 friar's lantern1645 gillian burnt-tail1654 Jill-burnt-tail1654 Jack-o'-lantern1658 fatuous fire1661 wildfire1663 wandering fire or light1667 Jack-a-Lent1680 fairy light1722 spunkie1727 Jill-o'-the-wisp1750 fen-fire1814 fatuus1820 marsh-light1823 feu follet1832 wisp-lighta1847 hob-lantern1847 ghost light1849 elf-fire1855 Peggy-with-her-lantern1855 fatuous light1857–8 marsh-fire1865 swamp fire1903 Min-Min1950 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > optical illusion > [noun] > an optical illusion > ignis fatuus foolish fire1563 ignis fatuus1563 fool's fire1583 will-o'-the-wisp1596 night-fire1633 Dick-a-Tuesday1636 fatuous vapour1661 fatuus1668 draco volans1675 spunkie1727 fen-fire1814 fatuous fire1845 fatuous light1857–8 1661 A. Brome Songs & Other Poems sig. P4^v Those fatuous Vapors, whose false light Purblinds the World. 1668 J. Denham Poems 181 Thence Fatuus fires and Meteors take their birth. 1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 378 The fatuous fire Of man's weak judgment. 1857–8 E. H. Sears Athanasia iv. 31 A fatuous light that shall lead him astray. †4. In Latin sense. Tasteless, insipid, vapid. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > insipidity > [adjective] wallowc897 smatchless?c1225 unsavoury?c1225 fresha1398 savourlessa1398 wearish1398 wershed1398 fond?c1430 unsavoured1435 palled1440 mildc1450 walsh1513 wallowish1548 dead1552 waterish1566 cold1585 flatten1594 seasonless1595 wersha1599 blown1600 flash1601 fatuous1608 tasteless1611 flat1617 insipid1620 ingustable1623 flashy1625 flatted1626 saltless1633 gustless1636 remiss1655 rheumatical1655 untasteable1656 vapid1656 exolete1657 distasted1662 vappous1673 insulse1676 toothless1679 mawkisha1697 intastable1701 waugh1703 impoignant1733 flavourless1736 instimulating1740 deadish1742 mawky1755 brineless1791 wishy-washy1791 keestless1802 shilpit1814 wish-washy1814 sapidless1821 silent1826 slushy1839 bland1878 spendsavour1879 wish-wash1896 dolled1917 spiceless1980 1608 D. Tuvill Ess. Politicke, & Morall f. 8^v Truth and Knowledge..where-with whatsoever is not seasoned, is fatuous and unsavourie. 1624 J. Donne Deuotions ii. 25 Instantly the tast is insipid, and fatuous. Derivatives ˈfatuously adv. in a fatuous manner. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > besottedness, infatuation > [adverb] dotingly1548 besottedly1660 infatuatedly1833 fatuously1876 1876 J. Weiss Wit, Humor, & Shakespeare v. 154 The fair maid [Ophelia] who must be the tenant of this grave so fatuously dug. 1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal I. i. 18 Such wild youths, she told herself, fatuously, generally make the best men. ˈfatuousness n. the quality or fact of being fatuous; imbecility, stupidity. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > besottedness, infatuation > [noun] dotery1587 besottedness1628 fatuity1649 infatuation1649 fatuositya1680 fatuousness1874 stuckness1895 amour fou1961 limerence1977 1874 J. Morley On Compromise 21 In both orders alike there is only too much of this kind of fatuousness. 1884 Westmorland Gaz. 1 Nov. 5/1 The..fatuousness of the policy..pursued in South Africa. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1608
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