Fatuous – Silly and pointless
(Pronounced fat-yew-uss)
To remember the definition of the word fatuous, use the following mnemonic:
Your fat ass (fatuous)! How could they miss it? What a silly and pointless game!
Examples of fatuous in a sentence
She made a fatuous remark which everyone simply ignored.
His ideas about future impovements were silly, and dismissed as fatuous.
Her essay was full of fatuous statements that missed the point entirely.