facetious
Meaning of facetious
- treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour; flippant.
a facetious remark
late 16th century (in the general sense ‘witty, amusing’): from French facétieux, from facétie, from Latin facetia ‘jest’, from facetus ‘witty’.
Information about facetious
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of facetious
face-tious
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- facetious is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
facetious synonyms
Meaning bantering:
Meaning not showing a serious or respectful attitude:
Meaning glib or flippant:
Meaning (of words or a speaker) fluent but insincere and shallow:
Meaning not having any serious purpose or value:
Meaning humorous in a playful, mischievous, or facetious manner:
Meaning playfully quaint or fanciful, especially in an appealing and amusing way:
Meaning humorous or flippant:
Meaning not serious; teasing or humorous:
Meaning said or done for amusement; joking:
Meaning fond of or characterized by joking; humorous or playful:
Meaning fond of games and amusement; light-hearted:
Meaning characteristic of a dishonest or unprincipled person:
Meaning inclined to do slightly naughty things for fun; mischievous:
Meaning intended to provoke or make fun of someone in a playful way:
Meaning a curved symmetrical structure spanning an opening and typically supporting the weight of a bridge, roof, or wall above it:
Meaning causing or showing a fondness for causing trouble in a playful way:
Meaning playful, especially in a mischievous way:
Meaning showing or characterized by quick and inventive verbal humour:
Meaning causing laughter and providing entertainment:
Meaning causing laughter or amusement; humorous:
Meaning curious or unusual in a way that provokes dry amusement:
Meaning causing or meant to cause laughter:
Meaning amusing, especially in a ludicrous or absurd way:
Meaning causing mild amusement; humorous:
Meaning lively and playful:
Meaning playful; light-hearted:
Meaning playful or humorous:
facetious antonyms
Meaning demanding or characterized by careful consideration or application:
Translation of facetious
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