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Foolish in a way that seems complacent or unaware of its own absurdity.
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- fatuous remark
- fatuous smile
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His fatuous remark silenced the room.
A fatuous smile accompanied the impossible promise.
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Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more fatuous; superlative most fatuous where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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