facetious
adjective/fəˈsiːʃəs/
/fəˈsiːʃəs/
(disapproving)- trying to appear funny and clever at a time when other people do not think it is appropriate, and when it would be better to be serious synonym flippant
- a facetious comment/remark
- Stop being facetious; this is serious.
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the general sense ‘witty, amusing’): from French facétieux, from facétie, from Latin facetia ‘jest’, from facetus ‘witty’.Definitions on the go
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