Showing posts with label fastuous. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fastuous. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 10, 2017

fatuous, fastuous

Fatuous or fatuous describes words that are foolish, airy or thoughtless --
He counts himself a scholar, but his arguments are usually fatuous.
If she opens her mouth and makes one more fatuous remark, I'll weep.

Fastuous or fastuous means arrogant or ostentatious --
She had a regal bearing, and greeted people with a fastuous nod.
She was always overdressed, fastuous if not fashionable.

Now that you know that, you can say --
"The wedding dinner was unstylishly fastuous; he felt a need to excuse it with fatuous explanations."