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Facetious vs Joking - What's the difference?

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Facetious is a synonym of joking.


As an adjective facetious

is treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour; flippant.

As a verb joking is

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As a noun joking is

the act of telling or engaging in jokes.

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

    joking

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (British, US, Ireland, colloquial, transitive) Kidding, trying to fool.
    • Twenty euros cover charge? You're joking me!

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of telling or engaging in jokes.
  • * Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop
    • No low beatings and knockings about, no jokings and squeakings like your precious Punches, but always the same, with a constantly unchanging air of coldness and gentility

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