Get to know Fatuous better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like asinine or inane.
Fatuous in a sentence
Fatuous meaning
Obnoxiously stupid; vacantly silly; content in one's foolishness.
Using Fatuous
- The main meaning on this page is: Obnoxiously stupid; vacantly silly; content in one's foolishness.
- Useful related words include: asinine, inane, mindless, vacuous.
- In the example corpus, fatuous often appears in combinations such as: is fatuous.
Context around Fatuous
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 4 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 10 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Fatuous
- In this selection, "fatuous" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 22.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, same, adjectives, idea, given and bloodsport stand out and add context to how "fatuous" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include encounter the fatuous jonah goldberg and it is fatuous. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "fatuous" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with fatuous
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I think it is fatuous. (5 words)
I can think of twenty adjectives – fatuous, pointless, absurd. (9 words)
Before making silly and fatuous comments on stories like this, research your history. (13 words)
At the National Review, where you can also encounter the fatuous Jonah Goldberg or the perpetually morally panicked David French, he is very nearly reasonable, even if he still appears slightly mad to those of us outside of the asylum. (40 words)
The National Trust, which exists to protect and promote our history, now prefers to airbrush the past and replace real castles with bouncy castles and ancient tapestries with fatuous touch-screen ‘experiences’ tailored to the snowflake generation. (37 words)
Martin Sweeting, founder of Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd., which previously counted Musk as an investor, said the government’s oft-repeated goal of the UK becoming a space superpower is “fatuous” given its spending. (34 words)
Example sentences (10)
He had no clear idea of what to do with his new acquisition, other than realising a fatuous idea about “free speech”.
Martin Sweeting, founder of Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd., which previously counted Musk as an investor, said the government’s oft-repeated goal of the UK becoming a space superpower is “fatuous” given its spending.
Online dating seems to be the same fatuous bloodsport for the overly self-conscious as the clubs and bars which prompted its beginnings.
The National Trust, which exists to protect and promote our history, now prefers to airbrush the past and replace real castles with bouncy castles and ancient tapestries with fatuous touch-screen ‘experiences’ tailored to the snowflake generation.
This was a time ludicrously called the “end of history” by that most fatuous of political observers, Francis Fukuyama.
Before making silly and fatuous comments on stories like this, research your history.
At the National Review, where you can also encounter the fatuous Jonah Goldberg or the perpetually morally panicked David French, he is very nearly reasonable, even if he still appears slightly mad to those of us outside of the asylum.
Cherry Wilkinson, a fatuous female protagonist with a history of novel-reading, fancies herself as the heroine of a Gothic romance.
I can think of twenty adjectives – fatuous, pointless, absurd.
I think it is fatuous.
Common combinations with fatuous
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- is fatuous 2×