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Fatuous – Silly and pointless

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(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!

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.