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Factious vs Facetious - What's the difference?

factious | facetious |

As adjectives the difference between factious and facetious

is that factious is of, pertaining to, or caused by factions while facetious is treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour; flippant.

factious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, pertaining to, or caused by factions.
  • Given to or characterized by discordance or insubordination.

    • Derived terms

    * factiousness noun * factiously adverb

    References

    See also

    * factitious

    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