2022-03-31
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน - Set – F - foolish & fatuous
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Dictionary.com:
ออกเสียง foolish = “FOO-lish”
ออกเสียง fatuous = “FACH-oo-uhs
Dictionary of Problem Words and Expressions:
foolish & fatuous
These words, along
with silly, simple, asinine, vapid, stupid, witless, and senseless,
mean ”lacking in judgement or intelligence, or both”
and may ordinarily be used interchangeably.
But they do have slightly different meaning and applications,
A foolish person lacks both judgement and common sense
and in addition may have a weak mind:
“Eating heavily when you are not hungry is a foolish thing to do.”
“Your remarks are not only out of place but entirely foolish.”
Fatuous implies being not only dull and stupid
but satisfied and complacent:
“Because I have only one daughter, whom I adore, I realize that I am fatuous about her.”
“The lecturer haughtily provided fatuous answers to our questions.”
A foolish person cannot always help himself;
afatuous person usually can.
Dictionary.com:
foolish
Speaking of foolish, that’s another good substitute for dumb.
Defined as “resulting from or showing a lack of sense;
ill-considered;
unwise,”
it’s more specific and less of a blanket statement
about someone’s overall level of intelligence.
For example,
you might tell your child it was foolish to think
they wouldn’t get caught trying to hide ice cream under their bed.
(If only this worked … access to ice cream day or night sounds pretty smart to us.)
Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
Choose the Right Synonym for foolish
Simple, Foolish, Silly, Fatuous, Asinine
mean actually or apparently deficient in intelligence.
Simple implies a degree of intelligence inadequate to cope with
anything complex or involving mental effort.
considered people simple who had trouble with computers
Foolish implies the character of being or seeming unable to use
judgment, discretion, or good sense.
foolish stunts
Silly suggests failure to act as a rational being especially by ridiculous behavior.
the silly antics of revelers
Fatuous implies foolishness, inanity, and disregard of reality.
fatuous conspiracy theories
Asinine suggests utter and contemptible failure to use normal rationality
or perception.
an asinine plot
Did you know?
"I am two fools, I know,
/ For loving, and for saying so
/ In whining Poetry,"
wrote John Donne,
simultaneously confessing to both infatuation and fatuousness.
As any love-struck fool can attest,
infatuation can make buffoons of the best of us.
So it should come as no surprise
that the words fatuous and infatuation
derive from the same Latin root, fatuus, which means "foolish."
Both terms have been part of English since the 17th century.
Infatuation followed the earlier verb infatuate,
a fatuus descendant that once meant "to make foolish"
but that now usually means
"to inspire with a foolish love or admiration."
What is the origin of infatuated?
When we speak of someone being infatuated
it very often is in relationship to that person
having seemingly taken leave of his or her senses,
especially in a romantic context
(“he was so infatuated that he could not remember
what day of the week it was”).
This is fitting, as the word shares an origin with the word fatuous,
which means complacently or inanely foolish.
Both words come from the Latin fatuus (“foolish”),
although fatuous is not often used in
the romantic contexts in which we find infatuate.
When used with a preposition infatuated is typically followed by with.
