Dictionary entry

Fatuous

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Fat″u‐ous (?), a. [L. fatuus.] 1. Feeble in mind; weak; silly; stupid; foolish; fatuitous. Glanvill.

2. Without reality; illusory, like the ignis fatuus.

Thence fatuous fires and meteors take their birth. Danham.