facetiously

1. 1.

   not seriously

   “I meant it facetiously”

   Synonymsjokinglytongue-in-cheek

Questions about facetiously

What does facetiously mean?

facetiously means "not seriously".

How many syllables are in facetiously?

facetiously has 4 syllables: fa-ce-tiou-sly. The stress falls on "ce". In IPA it is /fəˈsiʃəsli/.

What is another word for facetiously?

Close synonyms include jokingly, 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 facetiously a common word?

facetiously is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.