Facetious vs Trite - What's the difference?
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Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour; flippant.
Pleasantly humorous, jocular.
Worn out; hackneyed; used so many times that it is no longer interesting or effective (often in reference to a word or phrase).
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A denomination of coinage in ancient Greece equivalent to one third of a stater.
, a genus of spiders, found in Australia, New Zealand and Oceania, of the family Salticidae.
As adjectives the difference between facetious and trite
is that facetious is treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour; flippant while trite is worn out; hackneyed; used so many times that it is no longer interesting or effective (often in reference to a word or phrase).As a noun trite is
a denomination of coinage in ancient greece equivalent to one third of a stater.facetious
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Robbie's joke about Heather's picture was just him being facetious .
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* * * English words that use all vowels in alphabetical ordertrite
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Adjective
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