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facetious

adj
/fəˈsiːʃəs/

Etymology

From French facétieux, from Latin facētia (“jest, wit, humor”), from facētus (“witty, jocose, facetious”).

  1. derived from facētia
  2. borrowed from facétieux

Definitions

  1. Treating serious issues with (often deliberately) inappropriate humour

    Treating serious issues with (often deliberately) inappropriate humour; flippant.

    • Robbie's joke about Heather's appearance was just him being facetious.

  2. Pleasantly humorous

    Pleasantly humorous; jocular.

  3. humorously silly or counterproductive for the purpose of sarcastically advocating the…

    humorously silly or counterproductive for the purpose of sarcastically advocating the opposite.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at facetious. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at facetious. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at facetious

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA