What does facetious mean?

facetious means "cleverly amusing in tone".

How many syllables are in facetious?

facetious has 3 syllables: fa-ce-tious. The stress falls on "ce". In IPA it is /fəˈsiʃəs/.

What is another word for facetious?

Close synonyms include bantering, tongue-in-cheek. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is facetious a common word?

facetious is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Facetious — meaning, pronunciation and syllables

adjective

1 senseA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
cleverly amusing in tone
“a bantering tone”
“facetious remarks”
“tongue-in-cheek advice”
Synonymsbantering tongue-in-cheek
Similarhumorous

Questions about facetious

What does facetious mean?: facetious means "cleverly amusing in tone".
How many syllables are in facetious?: facetious has 3 syllables: fa-ce-tious. The stress falls on "ce". In IPA it is /fəˈsiʃəs/.
What is another word for facetious?

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