Facetious
21facetious — Synonyms and related words: Attic, biting, blithe, brilliant, clever, comic, comical, droll, funny, humorous, humorsome, jesting, jocose, jocular, jocund, joking, joky, jolly, joshing, jovial, keen, keen witted, laughable, ludicrous, merry,… …
22facetious — fa·ce·tious || fÉ™ sɪËʃəs adj. humorous, amusing, entertaining …
23facetious — [fə si:ʃəs] adjective using inappropriate humour. Derivatives facetiously adverb facetiousness noun Origin C16: from Fr. facétieux, from facétie, from L. facetia jest …
24facetious — a. 1. Witty, jocular, jocose, humorous, waggish, funny, comical, pleasant, droll. 2. Gay, merry, sportive, sprightly, lively, entertaining …
25facetious — adj 1. tongue in cheek, unserious, not serious, joking, jesting, Inf. joshing, Inf. kidding, Inf. fooling around. 2. funny, humorous, comical; jocular, jocose, waggish, witty, Archaic. facete; droll, humorsome, whimsical. 3. frivolous, flighty,… …
26facetious — fa·ce·tious …
27facetious — [fəˈsiːʃəs] adj trying to be funny in a way that is not suitable facetiously adv …
28facetious — adj. 1 characterized by flippant or inopportune humour. 2 (of a person) intending to be amusing, esp. inopportunely. Derivatives: facetiously adv. facetiousness n. Etymology: F faceacutetieux f. faceacutetie f. L facetia jest …
29The Facetious Nights of Straparola — also known as The Nights of Straparola , is a two volume collection of 75 fairy tales produced by the Italian writer and fairy tale collector Giovanni Francesco Straparola in the first half of the sixteenth century. The work was first published …
30bantering facetious tongue-in-cheek witty — humourous humourous adj. same as {humorous}; causing amusement or laughter. [Narrower terms: {bantering, facetious, tongue in cheek, witty ; {boisterous, knockabout, slapstick ; {buffoonish, clownish, zany}; {comic, comical, funny, laughable,… …