facetious

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14
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16
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/fəˈsiːʃəs/
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/fəˈsiːʃəs/ · /fəˈsiːʃɪs/

Definition of facetious

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Treating serious issues with (often deliberately) inappropriate humour; flippant.
    “Robbie's joke about Heather's appearance was just him being facetious.”
    “Troutbeck is a tiny village midway between Penrith and Keswick in a very sparsely populated part of Cumberland, and it used to be said by facetious travellers that the reason why it ever had a station at all was to give the engine a rest after it had struggled up the long and trying incline from Threlkeld.”
    “Glamour for its own sake is not something I have ever been particularly interested in,” Stella McCartney said backstage after her catwalk show. Which could sound like a facetious statement from a fashion designer who was, at that moment, standing among the marble-slabbed floors, elaborately frescoed ceilings and giant chandeliers of the Palais Garnier opera house, where the show was staged.”
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adj

  1. Treating serious issues with (often deliberately) inappropriate humour; flippant.
    “Robbie's joke about Heather's appearance was just him being facetious.”
    “Troutbeck is a tiny village midway between Penrith and Keswick in a very sparsely populated part of Cumberland, and it used to be said by facetious travellers that the reason why it ever had a station at all was to give the engine a rest after it had struggled up the long and trying incline from Threlkeld.”
    “Glamour for its own sake is not something I have ever been particularly interested in,” Stella McCartney said backstage after her catwalk show. Which could sound like a facetious statement from a fashion designer who was, at that moment, standing among the marble-slabbed floors, elaborately frescoed ceilings and giant chandeliers of the Palais Garnier opera house, where the show was staged.”
  2. Pleasantly humorous; jocular.
  3. humorously silly or counterproductive for the purpose of sarcastically advocating the opposite.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From French facétieux, from Latin facētia (“jest, wit, humor”), from facētus (“witty, jocose, facetious”).

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