adjective. Playfully jocular; humorous.

Sportive; jocular, without lack of dignity; abounding in fun: as, a facetious companion.

Full of pleasantry; playful, but not undignified; exciting laughter: as, a facetious story.

Synonyms Merry, Jovial, etc. (see jolly); jocose, humorous, funny, droll, comical.

adjective. Given to wit and good humor; merry; sportive; jocular.

adjective. Characterized by wit and pleasantry; exciting laughter.

adjective. Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor; flippant.

adjective. Pleasantly humorous, jocular.

adjective. cleverly amusing in tone

"The words “excellent in the quality he professes,” refer most likely to the Poet's acting; while the term facetious is used, apparently, not in the sense it now bears, but in that of felicitous or happy, as was common at that time."

humorous  humourous  

facetiously  facetiousness  

specious  

caustic  jocose  jocular  jovial  kindly  

Attic  biting  blithe  brilliant  clever