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
Slow and fatuous are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Slow" instead an adjective "Fatuous".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- This touching scene, shot with a zoom lens in slow motion to make it even more fatuous than it needed to be, is later immortalized in a bronze statue, unveiled at the end of the movie.
Source: Roger Ebert Most Hated Film List
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