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fatheaded

American  
[fat-hed-id] / ˈfætˌhɛd ɪd /

adjective

  1. foolish; fatuous; witless.


Other Word Forms

  • fatheadedly adverb
  • fatheadedness noun

Etymology

Origin of fatheaded

1500–10, for literal sense; fathead + -ed 3

Example Sentences

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This will sound fatheaded, but I wish Joe Biden would read my 2016 novel “The Mandibles,” and I hope I’d say that even if it had been written by someone else.

From New York Times • May 27, 2021

Big Bertha was the nickname for a World War I German howitzer but also a fatheaded golf club.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 29, 2016

Yet fatheaded Hardy and wooden-faced Laurel can always make audiences laugh.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the book's end, Twining returns, reduces the fatheaded opposition to its proper pinheaded proportions, and weary of it all, retires in favor of Wren.

From Time Magazine Archive

James might be wrongheaded; but George was fatheaded.

From Poor Relations by MacKenzie, Compton