Flippant vs Derisive - What's the difference?
flippant | derisive |
(archaic) glib; speaking with ease and rapidity
* Barrow
nimble; limber.
Showing disrespect through a casual attitude, levity, and a lack of due seriousness; pert.
* Burke
* 1998 , , The Metaphysical Touch
* 2000 , Anthony Howard and Jason Cowley, Decline and Fall, New Statesman, March 13, 2000
* 2004 , , The Easy Way to Stop Smoking , page 147
Expressing or characterized by derision; mocking; ridiculing.
Deserving or provoking derision or ridicule.
As adjectives the difference between flippant and derisive
is that flippant is (archaic) glib; speaking with ease and rapidity while derisive is expressing or characterized by derision; mocking; ridiculing.flippant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It becometh good men, in such cases, to be flippant and free in their speech.
- a sort of flippant , vain discourse
- The conversations had grown more adult over the years—she was less flippant , at least.
- In the mid-1950s we both wrote for the same weekly, where her contributions were a good deal more serious and less flippant than mine.
- Our society treats smoking flippantly as a slightly distasteful habit that can injure your health. It is not. It is drug addiction.
Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* seriousDerived terms
* flippancySee also
* irreverent * pert * facetious * frivolousExternal links
* * English words suffixed with -ant ----derisive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The critic's review of the film was derisive .
- The plot of the film was so derisive that the audience began to jeer.