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Cheeky vs Facetious - What's the difference?

cheeky | facetious |

As adjectives the difference between cheeky and facetious

is that cheeky is impudent; impertinent; impertinently bold, often in a way that is regarded as endearing or amusing while facetious is treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour; flippant.

cheeky

English

Adjective

(er)
  • (informal) Impudent; impertinent; impertinently bold, often in a way that is regarded as endearing or amusing.
  • * 1899 , , Stalky & Co. , chaper 4:
    • "Shut up," said Harrison. "You chaps always behave as if you were jawin' us when we come to jaw you."
    "You're a lot too cheeky ," said Craye.
  • * 1909 , , The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England , chaper 7:
    • The Young Turks, as might have been expected, wrote in their customary flippant, cheeky style.

    Synonyms

    * saucy * insolent * See

    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