facetiousadjective
uk/fəˈsiː.ʃəs/us/fəˈsiː.ʃəs/disapprovingnot serious about a serious subject, in an attempt to be funny or to appear clever :
facetious remarks
He's just being facetious.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Humour & humorous
- a bundle of laughs idiom
- amusing
- blackly
- bring
- bundle
- crack
- don't make me laugh! idiom
- funny ha-ha or funny peculiar? idiom
- gallows humour
- jocular
- josh
- killing
- lambent
- laugh
- sarcasm
- satirize
- tickle
- witty
- wordplay
- you've got to laugh idiom
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facetiously
adverb uk/fəˈsiː.ʃəs.li/us/fəˈsiː.ʃəs.li/
facetiousness
noun [ U ] uk/fəˈsiː.ʃəs.nəs/us/fəˈsiː.ʃəs.nəs/