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Droll vs Facetious - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between droll and facetious

is that droll is oddly humorous; whimsical, amusing in a quaint way; waggish while facetious is treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour; flippant.

As a noun droll

is a buffoon.

As a verb droll

is to joke, to jest.

droll

English

Adjective

(er)
  • oddly humorous; whimsical, amusing in a quaint way; waggish

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    Derived terms

    * drollery * drolly * drollness

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A buffoon
  • * , Episode 12, The Cyclops
    • Our two inimitable drolls did a roaring trade with their broadsheets among lovers of the comedy element and nobody who has a corner in his heart for real Irish fun without vulgarity will grudge them their hardearned pennies.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To joke, to jest.
  • * 1886 , Robert Louise Stevenson, Kidnapped
    • "Eh, man," said I, drolling with him a little, "you're very ingenious! But would it not be simpler for you to write him a few words in black and white?

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    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

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