Facetious – meaning, usage, quotes, and social examples

The word of the day is ‘facetious’.

The word is an adjective, i.e., it adds more information about the noun or sentence.

No, the word is an adjective. Therefore, it does not have a past form.

It means:
1. Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour
2. Kidding.
3. Flippant.
4. Tongue-in-cheek

1. Indeed, he found Mr Trenchard a most pleasant and facetious gentleman
2. His wit lively and sparkling, and his humour pleasant and facetious.
3. When you try to be facetious you altogether cease to be useful.
4. The latter was the father of the facetious Tom Hood, who was born here in 1798
5. “You can be facetious, I see,” the latter observed carelessly.

Some synonyms of today’s word are:
amusing, blithe, capering, clever, comic, comical, droll, dry, fanciful, farcical, flip, frivolous, funny, gay, humorous, indecorous, ironic, irreverent, jesting, jocose, jocular, joking, joshing, laughable, ludicrous, merry, not serious, playful, pleasant, pulling one’s leg, punning, putting one on, ridiculous, salty, sarcastic, satirical, smart, sportive, sprightly, waggish, whimsical, wisecracking, witty, wry, glib, jokey, roguish, impish, teasing, arch, mischievous, puckish, in fun, in jest, chucklesome, light-hearted, high-spirited, bantering, frolicsome, etc.

Some antonyms of this word of the day are:
formal, grave, serious, unfunny etc.