facetious en · ADJ
Pronunciation
Etymology
From French facétieux, from Latin facētia (“jest, wit, humor”), from facētus (“witty, jocose, facetious”).
Meanings
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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.
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.
2017 October 2, Jess Cartner-Morle, “Stella McCartney lays waste to disposable fashion in Paris”, in the Guardian: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.
1951 October, “Notes and News: The Harmonium at Troutbeck”, in Railway Magazine, page 709:
- Pleasantly humorous; jocular.
- (qualifier:Of an idea or statement) humorously silly or counterproductive for the purpose of sarcastically advocating the opposite.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most facetious | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more facetious | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Deriveds
nonfacetious · facetiousness · unfacetious · facetiously · semifacetious
Translations (58)
vi cợt nhả (flippant) · de humorvoll (pleasantly humorous, jocular) · de witzig (pleasantly humorous, jocular) · es faceto (pleasantly humorous, jocular) · mk за́бавен (pleasantly humorous, jocular) · ja 剽軽 (pleasantly humorous, jocular) · fr facétieux (flippant) · vi tếu táo (flippant) · ar طَرِيف (pleasantly humorous, jocular) · es faceto (flippant) · gl gracioso (pleasantly humorous, jocular) · it faceto (pleasantly humorous, jocular) · sv lättvindig (flippant) · nl al te lollig (flippant) · ru несерьёзный (flippant) · cy gwamal (flippant) · de mit unangemessenem Humor (flippant) · fi leikillinen (pleasantly humorous, jocular) · hu tréfálkozó (pleasantly humorous, jocular) · is gamansamur (flippant) · el ευτράπελος (pleasantly humorous, jocular) · mk за́качлив (flippant) · bg шеговит (flippant) · ru шу́точный (pleasantly humorous, jocular) · gl cómico (pleasantly humorous, jocular) · de lustig (pleasantly humorous, jocular) · cy cellweirus (pleasantly humorous, jocular) · fi näsäviisas (flippant) · es gracioso (pleasantly humorous, jocular) · pt faceto (pleasantly humorous, jocular) · bg закачлив (flippant) · ru заба́вный (pleasantly humorous, jocular) · fi epäasiallinen (flippant) · es fisgón (flippant) · mk леко́мислен (flippant) · fi hyväntuulinen (pleasantly humorous, jocular) · de spaßig (pleasantly humorous, jocular) · nl grappig (pleasantly humorous, jocular) · nl misplaatst grappig (flippant) · it faceto (flippant) · cy ysmala (flippant) · pt debochado (flippant) · de flapsig (flippant) · cy doniol (pleasantly humorous, jocular) · cy arabus (pleasantly humorous, jocular) · mk несерио́зен (flippant) · ar سَاخِر (flippant) · ru шутли́вый (pleasantly humorous, jocular) · fr facétieux (pleasantly humorous, jocular) · de unpassende Scherze machend (flippant) · de drollig (pleasantly humorous, jocular) · mk ше́говит (pleasantly humorous, jocular) · sv skämtsam (pleasantly humorous, jocular) · bg забавен (pleasantly humorous, jocular) · mk сме́шен (pleasantly humorous, jocular) · es facecioso (pleasantly humorous, jocular) · es socarrón (flippant) · is spaugsamur (flippant)