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Facetious vs Pleasant - What's the difference?

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Facetious is a related term of pleasant.


As adjectives the difference between facetious and pleasant

is that facetious is treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour; flippant while pleasant is giving pleasure; pleasing in manner.

As a noun pleasant is

(obsolete) a wit; a humorist; a buffoon.

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

    pleasant

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Giving pleasure; pleasing in manner.
  • * Bible, Psalms cxxxiii. 1
    • Behold, how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
  • *, chapter=10
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant' as talking; just to watch was ' pleasant .}}

    Synonyms

    * nice

    Antonyms

    * unpleasant

    Derived terms

    * pleasantly * pleasantness * pleasantry

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A wit; a humorist; a buffoon.
    • (Webster 1913)

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