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facetiously

/fəˈsiʃəsli/fuh-SEE-shuh-slee
UK form converted from the US by rule · unchecked
/fəˈsiʃəsli/fuh-SEE-shuh-slee

Meaningin a facetious way

Common meaning: jokingly, at the wrong moment

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Journey through time

  1. Latinfacētus, -a, -um‘witty, elegant’
  2. Frenchfacetieux
  3. Old Frenchfacetiesource
  4. Englishfacetious‘flippant’
  5. Englishformed in English from facetiousfacetiously‘jokingly, at the wrong moment’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
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  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Formed in English from facetious + -ly.

Dictionary: Skeat (1898), FACETIOUS, p.202 · scan

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