Fool
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
Fool and fatuous are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Fool" instead an adjective "Fatuous".
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