Definition of
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[ adjective ] cleverly amusing in tone

Synonyms

tongue-in-cheek bantering

Examples

"a bantering tone" "facetious remarks" "tongue-in-cheek advice"

Related terms

humorous

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Rhymes with

specious suspicious auspicious propitious malicious repetitious expeditious efficacious fallacious superstitious capricious injudicious surreptitious tenacious sebaceous salacious capacious vivacious rambunctious factitious ambitious vicious spacious ceraceous atrocious delicious seditious overambitious vexatious audacious ostentatious predaceous conscientious fractious precocious voracious semiprecious cautious precocious gracious ignatius ferocious anxious obnoxious infectious fictitious herbaceous subconscious unconscious nauseous nutritious judicious pernicious confucius anxious loquacious noxious flirtatious contentious conscious precious semiprecious semiprecious pretentious unpretentious tendentious

Phonetic and Homophones

F AH0 S IY1 SH AH0 S

Similar Spelling

facetiously factious

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