Facetious vs Relaxed - What's the difference?
facetious | relaxed | Related terms |
Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour; flippant.
Pleasantly humorous, jocular.
Having an easy-going mood or temperament.
Eased or loosened.
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Facetious is a related term of relaxed.
As adjectives the difference between facetious and relaxed
is that facetious is treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour; flippant while relaxed is having an easy-going mood or temperament.As a verb relaxed is
(relax).facetious
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Robbie's joke about Heather's picture was just him being facetious .