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Bantering vs Facetious - What's the difference?

bantering | facetious |

As adjectives the difference between bantering and facetious

is that bantering is that teases while facetious is treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour; flippant.

As a noun bantering

is teasing.

As a verb bantering

is .

bantering

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • teasing
  • * Harry Stillwell Edwards
    • Her smiles were distributed among the tourists, and she learned to give keen answers to their good-humored banterings .
  • joking; jesting

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That teases

    • Derived terms

    * banteringly

    facetious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour; flippant.
    • Robbie's joke about Heather's picture was just him being facetious .
  • Pleasantly humorous, jocular.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * facetiously * facetiousness

    External links

    * * * English words that use all vowels in alphabetical order