facetious

English

Etymology

From French facétieux, from Latin facetia (“jest, wit”), from facetus (“witty”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /fəˈsiː.ʃəs/, X-SAMPA: /f@"si:.S@s/

  Rhymes: -iːʃəs

• Hyphenation: fa‧ce‧tious

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Adjective

facetious (comparative more facetious, superlative most facetious)

1. Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor; flippant.

   Robbie's joke about Heather's picture was just him being facetious.

2. Pleasantly humorous, jocular.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:witty

Derived terms

• facetiously
• facetiousness

Translations

flippant

• Bulgarian: шеговит (bg) (šegovit), закачлив (bg) (zakačliv)
• Dutch: spottend (nl), spotterig (nl)
• Finnish: epäasiallinen (fi)

• French: facétieux (fr)
• Icelandic: spaugsamur (is) m, gamansamur (is) m

pleasantly humorous, jocular

• Bulgarian: забавен (bg) (zabaven)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 轻率的 (cmn), 滑稽的 (cmn)

• Dutch: grappig (nl)

• Finnish: hyväntuulinen (fi), leikillinen (fi)
• Hungarian: tréfálkozó (hu)
• Russian: шутливый (ru) (šutlívyj), шуточный (ru) (šútočnyj), забавный (ru) (zabávnyj)
• Swedish: skämtsam (sv)

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• Kyrgyz: тамашалуу (ky) (tamaşaluu), оюнкараак (ky) (oyunkaraak)

External links

• facetious in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• facetious in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• facetious at OneLook Dictionary Search