facetious
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/fəˈsiːʃəs/
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/fəˈsiːʃəs/ · /fəˈsiːʃɪs/
Definition of facetious
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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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
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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.”
- Pleasantly humorous; jocular.
- 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”).
Words you can make from facetious
200+ playable · top: FACTIOUS (13 pts)
Best play factious 13 points8-letter words
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22 words5-letter words
62 words- CAFES 10 pts
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3-letter words
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