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Facetious vs Humor - What's the difference?

facetious | humor |

As an adjective facetious

is treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour; flippant.

As a noun humor is

mood, temper.

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

    humor

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1763 , (Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz), History of Louisisana (PG), p. 40
  • For some days a fistula lacrymalis had come into my left eye, which discharged an humour , when pressed, that portended danger.
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  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained.}}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • I know you don't believe my story, but humor me for a minute and imagine it to be true.

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