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facetious

fa·ce·tious [ fə-ˈsē-shəs]

facetious

adjective

Definition of facetious

1 : joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish
//just being facetious

2 : meant to be humorous or funny : not serious
//a facetious remark

Other Words from facetious

facetiously adverb

facetiousness noun

Synonyms & Antonyms for dainty

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Choose the Right Synonym for dainty

witty, humorous, facetious, jocular, jocose mean provoking or intended to provoke laughter. witty suggests cleverness and quickness of mind.
// a witty remark humorous applies broadly to anything that evokes usually genial laughter and may contrast with witty in suggesting whimsicality or eccentricity.
//humorous anecdotes facetious stresses a desire to produce laughter and may be derogatory in implying dubious or ill-timed attempts at wit or humor.
//facetious comments jocular implies a usually habitual fondness for jesting and joking.
// a jocular fellow jocose is somewhat less derogatory than facetious in suggesting habitual waggishness or playfulness.
//jocose proposals

Recent Examples on the Web

//While a one-vote victory is facetious, the hypothetical ratio of deficit to surplus is an excellent way to see how badly the distribution of voters-by-state punished the losing candidate.
— Time, "The High-Risk Strategy That Could Hand Democrats the White House," 17 Sep. 2019
//Donatella’s appeal—her fame transcends the confines of the fashion bubble—is a many-faceted, flashy, funny, facetious, life-enhancing thing.
— Vogue, "The Women Designers Who Changed The Way We Dress," 14 Aug. 2019
//What was promoted as an exchanging of rings was better characterized as a facetious litany of moments designed to go viral, artifice presented with frenzied urgency but no earnest emotion.
— Aja Romano, Vox, "Jake Paul and Tana Mongeau’s giant YouTuber wedding married reality TV to the internet," 30 July 2019
//By turns facetious, juvenile, cruel and profane in tone, the channel repeatedly reveals personal information and photos, some of them intimate, of the family members of police officers, sometimes with intimate social-media photos.
— Paul Mozur, New York Times, "In Hong Kong Protests, Faces Become Weapons," 26 July 2019
//The adjectives, of course, are facetious; none of Mussina's neighbors on the all-time ERA list have any chance of sniffing the Hall of Fame anytime soon.
— Dave Sheinin, courant.com, "It took years, and a sabermetrics revolution, to put Mike Mussina in the Hall of Fame," 19 July 2019
//The Werewolf of Washington’ aren’t too scary, and the funny bits tend to come out fitfully facetious.
— John Kelly, Washington Post, "In 1973, there was a werewolf in the White House — at least in this B movie," 8 Jan. 2018
//Diplo then set off a stream of response tweets, rich with memes and facetious apologies.
— Kat Bein, Billboard, "deadmau5, Laidback Luke & More DJs React to Zedd, Diplo Beef," 12 June 2018
//Bauer replied first with a string of chin-scratching emojis, then with a facetious allusion to possible malfeasance.
— Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, "Astros respond to cryptic, accusatory tweets by Indians' Trevor Bauer," 1 May 2018

First Known Use of facetious

1594, in the meaning defined at sense 2

History and Etymology for facetious

borrowed from Middle French facetieux, facecieux, from facetie "joke, jesting remark" (borrowed from Latin facētia, facētiae "cleverness, wit," in plural sense, "amusing things, jests") + -eux (going back to Latin -ōsus -ous) — more at facetiae

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