Meaning

3 senses

  1. Treating serious issues with (often deliberately) inappropriate humour; flippant.

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

    flapsig, mit unangemessenem Humor, unpassende Scherze machend

    несерьёзныйneserʹjóznyj

  2. Pleasantly humorous; jocular.

    spaßig, witzig, lustig

    шутли́выйšutlívyj, шу́точныйšútočnyj, заба́вныйzabávnyj

  3. Humorously silly or counterproductive for the purpose of sarcastically advocating the opposite.

More definitions
  • cleverly amusing in tone

Examples

4 sentences

  1. Tom is being facetious.

    ruТом паясничает.

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  2. I was being facetious.

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  3. You're being facetious.

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  4. Are you accusing me of being facetious?

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
flippant:
pleasantly humorous, jocular:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
flippant:
pleasantly humorous, jocular:

Origin

From French facétieux, from Latin facētia (“jest, wit, humor”), from facētus (“witty, joco

From French facétieux, from Latin facētia (“jest, wit, humor”), from facētus (“witty, jocose, facetious”).

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Forms

more facetious, most facetious
Comparativemore facetious Lesson
Superlativemost facetious Lesson

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

5 related words
Relatedfacetiousness
Derivedfacetiouslynonfacetioussemifacetiousunfacetious

Lessons for this word

2 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
faceliftfacetfacialC1facilefacilitateB2
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