fatuously

1. 1.

   vacuously or complacently and unconsciously foolish

   Synonymsinanely

Questions about fatuously

What does fatuously mean?

fatuously means "vacuously or complacently and unconsciously foolish".

How many syllables are in fatuously?

fatuously has 4 syllables and divides as fa-tu-ou-sly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for fatuously?

Close synonyms include inanely. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fatuously a common word?

fatuously is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.