Fatuous and Gormless

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Fatuous

Fatuous adjective - Not having or showing an ability to absorb ideas readily.
Usage example: the fatuous questions that the audience members asked after the lecture suggested to the oceanographer that they had understood little
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Gormless and fatuous are semantically related (British) in foolish topic. In some cases you can use "Gormless" instead an adjective "Fatuous", when it comes to topics like daft. informal substitute
Nearby Words: fatuity, fatuousness, fatuously

Gormless

Gormless adjective - Not having or showing an ability to absorb ideas readily.
Usage example: a comedy show that invariably portrays the British aristocracy as a bunch of gormless twits
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Fatuous and gormless are semantically related in foolish topic. You can use "Fatuous" instead an adjective "Gormless".

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