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单词 fatuous
释义
fatuousfat‧u‧ous /ˈfætʃuəs/ adjective Word Origin
WORD ORIGINfatuous
Origin:
1600-1700 Latin fatuus ‘stupid, tasteless’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • fatuous speeches
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Hesitating, Eline pushed open the door, it seemed fatuous to knock, a foolish act of politeness in the circumstances.
  • Let the fatuous sun shine by itself and let's head for the moon.
  • Made some fatuous comment about using the smaller car.
  • Others ask them fatuous questions such as whether beds are comfortable or whether they like their teachers.
  • The first assumption of the Census Bureau, therefore, must be viewed as fatuous at worst, naive at best.
very silly or stupid SYN  idiotic:  fatuous questionsfatuously adverbfatuousness noun [uncountable]
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