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English Dictionary: fatuous by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fatuous
adj
  1. devoid of intelligence [syn: asinine, fatuous, inane, mindless, vacuous]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fatuous \Fat"u*ous\, a. [L. fatuus.]
      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.
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