facetious

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Treating serious issues with (often deliberately) inappropriate humour; flippant.
    — Robbie's joke about Heather's appearance was just him being facetious.
  2. Pleasantly humorous; jocular.
  3. humorously silly or counterproductive for the purpose of sarcastically advocating the opposite.

词形变化

more facetious comparative most facetious superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
facetiously facetiousness nonfacetious semifacetious unfacetious

词源

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