facetious

== English == === Etymology === From French facétieux, from Latin facētia (“jest, wit, humor”), from facētus (“witty, jocose, facetious”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /fəˈsiːʃəs/ (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /fəˈsiːʃɪs/ Rhymes: -iːʃəs Hyphenation: fa‧ce‧tious === Adjective === facetious (comparative more facetious, superlative most facetious) Treating serious issues with (often deliberately) inappropriate humour; flippant. Pleasantly humorous; jocular. (Of an idea or statement) humorously silly or counterproductive for the purpose of sarcastically advocating the opposite. ==== Synonyms ==== See also Thesaurus:witty ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === “facetious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “facetious”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. “facetious”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.