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Q: What word means overly serious or lacking in humor?
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What is the difference between 'facetious' 'flippant' and 'cocky'?

'Facetious' means treating serious issues with inappropriate humor, 'flippant' refers to displaying a disrespectful or casual attitude, and 'cocky' is being overly confident or arrogant. While facetiousness can involve humor, it is often used to undermine something serious, whereas being flippant or cocky involves attitudes of disrespect or arrogance.


Is humorless a prefix?

No, "humorless" is not a prefix. It is a single word that means lacking humor or the ability to perceive or appreciate humor.


What does fecisous mean?

Hey - The spelling is wrong that's all. It's spelled "facetious" and it means "playful humor; treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor." Someone would normally say " I wasn't being serious, I meant it facetiously."


What is sophomoric humor?

sophmoric means immature so sophmoric humor is immature humor


What remorseless means?

remorseless means lacking


Does 'lacking' mean the same as 'devoid'?

Lacking means that there is a shortage of something; such as someone who is lacking in manners. Devoid means to be completely without something. The words are similar but not exactly the same.


What word means dry sense of humor?

It means to be sort of serious when telling a joke and only little parts (if I may) are understood by the listener. It requires work, actually, for the listener to completely get it. It also means you're very humorous. So basicly, a "dry" sense of humor is a good thing.2nd Answer:But the question was, "What word" . . . the word could be "droll".


What is the prefix of lacking senses of responsibility?

The prefix of "lacking senses of responsibility" is "ir-" which means "not" or "without".


Is there a name that means funny?

humor


What does humor you means?

To humor you means to go along with you. You might hear this said when someone is disagreeing, and the person wants them just to hear them out or to try things their way for a bit - they will say "Just humor me."


What is the word that means lacking trust?

Untrustworthy


Banal means what?

lacking originality or commonplace