fatuus
- adjective
- /ˈfætʃuəs/
- Archaic
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fatuo
- The poet mocked the fatuus nobleman for his lack of wisdom.
Examples
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His fatuus remarks left everyone in disbelief.
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Don't be so fatuus!
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In the ancient manuscript, the king was described as a fatuus unfit to rule.
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Historians often refer to the ruler as a fatuus in their accounts of the era.
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In the ancient manuscript, the king was described as a fatuus unfit to rule.
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The poet mocked the fatuus nobleman for his lack of wisdom.
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Historians often refer to the ruler as a fatuus in their accounts of the era.
Synonyms
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8.2
A person who is foolish and not very smart
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8.8
A person who acts in a silly or foolish way
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9.9
A person who is silly and not very clever
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9.9
A person who acts foolishly and lacks common sense
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9.9
A person who behaves in a foolish way
A person who is simple and easily fooled
An old word for a person who is foolish or slow to understand
A person who is not very smart
A person who is foolish and lacks common sense
A word for a foolish person that people say as an insult
A foolish person who does silly things
Antonyms
Compounds
- Archaic
A small, strange light that appears over wet ground and may lead people the wrong way
How Foolish
Surface Forms
Etymology
Fatuus comes from the Latin fatuus, which meant 'foolish' or 'stupid', and it is the source of the English word fatuous. So to call someone or something fatuus is to say it is silly and without good sense.