Facetious
[fə'siːʃəs] or [fə'siʃəs]
Definition
(a.) Given to wit and good humor; merry; sportive; jocular; as, a facetious companion.
(a.) Characterized by wit and pleasantry; exciting laughter; as, a facetious story or reply.
Checker: Michelle
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Witty, jocular, jocose, humorous, waggish, funny, comical, pleasant, merry, sportive, droll.
Typist: Susan
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Witty, funny, humorous, jocular, waggish, playful, droll, jocose
ANT:Heavy, matter-of-fact, dull, grave, serious, lugubrious, sombre, saturnine
Typed by Gwendolyn
Definition
adj. witty humorous jocose: bawdy—(obs. or arch.) Facete′.—n.pl. Faceti (fa-sē′shi-ē) witty or humorous sayings or writings: a bookseller's term for improper books—of all degrees of indecency.—adv. Facē′tiously.—n. Facē′tiousness.
Editor: Stanton
Examples
- They are partly facetious, but also contain a germ of truth. Plato. The Republic.
- At this facetious speech, the young boy, it is almost needless to say, was fairly convulsed. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- We might have treated this subject in the genteel, or in the romantic, or in the facetious manner. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- However, he took affairs as coolly as it was in human nature to do, and entertained himself with the facetious idea of the training more than once. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- And, with that, aunty gave George a nudge with her finger, designed to be immensely facetious, and turned again to her griddle with great briskness. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He was lively and facetious at dinner. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It is a fine piece of irony; it is the only facetious remark in the Bible, I believe. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Editor: Stanton