facetious
Meanings
Adjective Satellite
- cleverly amusing in tone
- "facetious remarks"
Adj
- Treating serious issues with (often deliberately) inappropriate humour; flippant.
- Pleasantly humorous; jocular.
- humorously silly or counterproductive for the purpose of sarcastically advocating the opposite.
Origin / Etymology
From French facétieux, from Latin facētia (“jest, wit, humor”), from facētus (“witty, jocose, facetious”).
Synonyms
bantering, tongue-in-cheek
Scrabble Score: 14
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Words With Friends Score: 16
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