Facetious
/fəˈsiːʃəs/ adj
adj ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Treating serious issues with (often deliberately) inappropriate humour; flippant.
"Robbie's joke about Heather's appearance was just him being facetious."
- 2 Pleasantly humorous; jocular.
- 3 humorously silly or counterproductive for the purpose of sarcastically advocating the opposite.
Adjective
- 1 cleverly amusing in tone wordnet
Example
More examples"Are you accusing me of being facetious?"
Etymology
From French facétieux, from Latin facētia (“jest, wit, humor”), from facētus (“witty, jocose, facetious”).