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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fatuous \Fat"u*ous\, adjective [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
fatuous
adjective: complacently or inanely foolish [syn: {asinine}, {inane}, {mindless}, {vacuous}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
133 Moby Thesaurus words for "fatuous": absurd, air-built, airy, apish, asinine, barren, batty, befooled, beguiled, besotted, blank, blankminded, bootless, brainless, buffoonish, calm, catchpenny, chimerical, cloud-built, cockeyed, counterproductive, crazy, credulous, daffy, daft, dazed, dizzy, doting, dreamlike, dumb, effete, empty, empty-headed, ethereal, etiolated, fanciful, fatuitous, feckless, flaky, flimsy, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, fribble, fribbling, frivolous, frothy, fruitless, fuddled, futile, gaga, gaseous, goofy, gossamery, gulled, hollow, idiotic, idle, illusory, imaginary, imbecile, inadequate, inane, incogitant, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inept, infatuated, inoperative, insane, insensate, invalid, kooky, light, loony, mad, maudlin, moronic, nirvanic, nugacious, nugatory, nutty, oblivious, of no force, otiose, passive, phantomlike, quietistic, rarefied, relaxed, sappy, screwy, senseless, sentimental, shadowy, shallow, silly, slender, slight, spirituous, sterile, stupid, subtile, subtle, superficial, tenuous, thoughtfree, thoughtless, tranquil, trifling, trite, trivial, unavailing, unideaed, unintellectual, unoccupied, unreal, unreasoning, unthinking, unwitty, useless, vacant, vacuous, vain, vapid, vaporous, wacky, weak-minded, wet, windy, witless
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