fatuously
fat·u·ous·ly/ˈfæt͡ʃ.u.əs.li/adverb
fatuously is an adverb meaning “With smug stupidity or vacuous silliness; idiotically” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-T-U-O-U-S-L-Y and has 4 syllables (fat·u·ous·ly), and it appears about once in every 56 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does fatuously mean?
adverb
- 1
With smug stupidity or vacuous silliness; idiotically.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fatuously?
- UK /ˈfæt.ju.əs.li/
- US /ˈfæt͡ʃ.u.əs.li/
Fatuously has 4 syllables, split fat·u·ous·ly in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-fatuously.ogg, En-us-fatuously-2.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of fatuously
- more fatuously comparative
- most fatuously superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fatuously?
Fatuously appears about once in every 56 million words in written English, the 234,209th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does fatuously come from?
From fatuous + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).