Results for facetious

Definitions of facetious:

part of speech: noun

Facetiousness.

part of speech: adjective

Sprightly with witand good- humour; gay; full of pleasantry; jocular.

part of speech: adjective

Humorous; jocular.

part of speech: adjective

Witty, humorous, jocose.

Usage examples for facetious:

• Jack was going to make a facetious remark, when the old man murmured as if thinking aloud: Seven deaths, five of them suicides. "Death Points a Finger", Will Levinrew

• She drank tea, and pulled herself together for a lively description of the wheel- locking and the subsequent conversation, a bright ridiculous account which made the affair happen by implication on the high road and not in a byeway, and was adorned with every facetious ornament that seemed likely to get a laugh from the children. "Marriage", H. G. Wells

• This is soon done, said the old gentleman, taking my arm with a sort of sly humour, as if he were about to relate something facetious against foot, a charge is a menace; if they break, we profit by it; if they stand, we get out of the scrape as well as we can. "Recollections of Europe", J. Fenimore Cooper