Difference between Facetious and Humorous

What is the difference between Facetious and Humorous?

Facetious as an adjective is treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor; flippant. while Humorous as an adjective is full of humor or arousing laughter; funny.

Facetious

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor; flippant. Pleasantly humorous, jocular.

Humorous

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Full of humor or arousing laughter; funny.Showing humor; witty, jocular.Damp or watery.

Example sentence: There's a long tradition - certainly with country, but in all kinds of genres of music - to have humorous lyrics. Certainly with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention and, if you look at country, Roger Miller and Jim Stafford.

We hope you now know whether to use Facetious or Humorous in your sentence.

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