(a.) Feeble in mind; weak; silly; stupid; foolish; fatuitous.
(a.) Without reality; illusory, like the ignis fatuus.
Example Sentences:
(1) There certainly has been a danger that the dispute could be diverted into a chauvinistic blind alley, not least because of the cue given by Brown's cynical and fatuous use of the British National Party's slogan "British jobs for British workers", which was then thrown back in his face by the strikers.
(2) So far, the president has been more fatuous than fascistic, though he belatedly realized what an albatross the bill had become.
(3) Yet such is Britain's fatuously entitled "war on drugs".
(4) First, Brazil did not have any penalty appeals against Mexico , so the media’s thick-headed behaviour could not have triggered the inevitable payback on this occasion, rendering Scolari’s complaint somewhat fatuous, at least in terms of what had just happened.
(5) But likewise, insisting on economic deprivation, as though that is the sole context and alone explains their motivations, is only marginally less fatuous.
(6) It's not quite believable that height is unimportant to Sellar, although he's right that it's fatuous to chase superlatives, given that the Shard does not quite equal the 82-year-old Chrysler building in New York.
(7) Iran's religious minorities are arrested on fatuous charges, endure trials that violate the state's own due process, are jailed on unproven convictions and tortured in prison.
(8) Even if you think the Twitter storms about political “misspeaks” and “gaffes” are fatuous, consider what you did not hear after the PM’s outburst last week.
(9) This involves tight prioritisation – allowing yourself a certain amount of time per task – and trying not to get caught up in less productive activities, such as unstructured meetings that tend to take up lots of time.” We’ve all been there, wishing we weren’t stuck in the same room as a bunch of fatuous blowhards – or, as Michael Foley puts it in his superb book The Age of Absurdity , “the colleagues who speak at length in every meeting, in loud confident tones that suggest critical independence, but never deviate from the official line”.
(10) In addition, these studies also risk annoying the project's youngsters by asking them questions they perceive to be intrusive or fatuous.
(11) The prize in his view, though, is "not about who's the best: I think that's fatuous".
(12) When Phillips first spoke of sleepwalking 10 years ago , even David Miliband tut-tutted, calling his concerns “fatuous”.
(13) In this respect, the idea of "saving for the nation" is fatuous, jingoistic nonsense.
(14) ■ "Wittering inanity", "Fatuous", "Pass the jubilee sickbag".
(15) Shaun Spiers Chief executive, Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) • The government’s plans to build 13,000 houses for sale at just 20% off ludicrous market values is a fatuous response to the biggest housing crisis since the second world war.
(16) All the money and clothes and fatuous conversation have driven Bateman mad, we might think.
(17) "Let us quit this indecent exercise of fatuous plaints, including raising hopes, even now, with talk of 'posthumous' conferment, when you know damned well that the Nobel committee does not indulge in such tradition.
(18) Not a Brexit conspiracy, but assuredly an inspiration for Boris Johnson’s fatuous and burbling battle cry of “ Independence day !” Now the Tory leadership campaign has begun and, incredibly, movie advertising is again playing its role.
(19) A failure to recognise this distinctiveness was well demonstrated in last year's fatuous talk about the Olympics' "growth dividend".
(20) In the decades that followed, Frost became a media personality and comedian, as comfortable cross-examining the most heavyweight political figures of the day as hosting Through the Keyhole, the show typifying the fatuousness of celebrity culture, in which panellists were given a video tour of a mystery famous guest's property and asked to identify the owner from the evidence.
Fecund
Definition:
(a.) Fruitful in children; prolific.
Example Sentences:
(1) Multiple spawnings of individual females were also observed during the spawning period affecting the relative fecundity of the eggs.
(2) Haematological and blood biochemical changes in the sheep, as well as fecundity of gastrointestinal nematodes, suggested the hosts were immunosuppressed.
(3) Effect of microsporidiosis on the fecundity of hosts A. c. caspius was studied.
(4) Fecundability was only 12% lower for women in the 30-39 year age interval than for women up to 29 years of age.
(5) Data in relation to evolution cycle, period between emergency of adults and first oviposition, fecundity, fertility, amount of blood ingested and fast resistance, are presented.
(6) We conclude that cycle fecundity rates and cumulative pregnancy rates are significantly greater using a combination of hMG and IUI compared with either modality alone in the treatment of male factor, cervical factor, endometriosis, or unexplained infertility.
(7) A model of functional epistasis is proposed in which it is assumed that coupling and repulsion genotypes differ in metabolic efficiency and thus in development time and net fecundity.
(8) We show by genetic crosses that each gene makes an equivalent contribution to the fecundity and fertility of the female and they do not individually provide unique functions to the embryo.
(9) were significantly higher in Booroola ewes containing a major fecundity gene (FF and F+ ewes) compared to those values in Booroolas with no copy of the gene (++ animals; P less than 0.025).
(10) Fecundity among genotypes was not different, although there was an effect on the total number of offspring suggesting differences in egg-to-adult survivorship.
(11) The higher fecundability of more recent cohorts is the most consistent observation.
(12) Electrophoretic partition of the semen plasma of dogs with fecundity disturbances also showed the presence of three fractions, whose migration path and protein concentration are identical with those found in the semen plasma of fertile dogs.
(13) mortality was high), while the nymphal instars showed an adverse effect on ecdysis and adults which emerged from the treated last nymphal instar were characterized by high mortality, abnormal behaviour and reduced fecundity and viability.
(14) Thus, parity had little effect on fecundity in aging females, whereas the cessation of regular ovulatory cycles during aging greatly decreased both the incidence of fertility and the litter size.
(15) Neither sex nor the age of the host was found to influence the fecundic life span or the survival of female adult worm.
(16) The viabilities and fecundities of these same lines were determined by a segregation test using the SM5 balancer chromosome.
(17) The numbers of vitellogenic oocytes in the ovary during the entire study also suggested that atresia of vitellogenic oocytes does not play a prominent role in determining fecundity.
(18) Fecundability of 104 healthy women attempting to become pregnant was halved by consumption of the equivalent of 1 cup of brewed coffee or more daily.
(19) A possible relation between prenatal exposure to cigarette smoking and adult fecundability in women was explored, with the use of data from a prospective study of 221 North Carolina couples.
(20) The processes, connected with the population's reproduction fecundity and the birth number play a great part in the health formation of different populations.