Synonyms for Facetious
fəˈsi ʃəsface·tious

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1. facetious

   Synonyms:
   witty, funny, humorous, jocular, waggish, playful, droll, jocose

   Antonyms:
   heavy, matter-of-fact, dull, grave, serious, lugubrious, sombre, saturnine

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1. bantering, facetious, tongue-in-cheekadjective

   cleverly amusing in tone

   "a bantering tone"; "facetious remarks"; "tongue-in-cheek advice"

   Synonyms:
   tongue-in-cheek, facetious, bantering

   Antonyms:
   unhumorous, humourless, humorless

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1. facetiousadjective

   Synonyms:
   witty, jocular, jocose, humorous, waggish, funny, comical, pleasant, merry, sportive, droll

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1. Sydney Smith:

   You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.

2. Josh Billings:

   The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.