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Facetious vs Fictitious - What's the difference?

facetious | fictitious |

As adjectives the difference between facetious and fictitious

is that facetious is treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour; flippant while fictitious is not real; invented; contrived.

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

    fictitious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not real; invented; contrived.
    • St. Mary Mead is a fictitious village from the books of Agatha Christie.

    Synonyms

    * imaginary, invented, contrived, fictive