About The Word Ironic
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Ironic
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What's The Definition Of Ironic?
[adj] characterized by often poignant difference or incongruity between what is expected and what actually is; "madness, an ironic fate for such a clear thinker"; "it was ironical that the well-planned scheme failed so completely"
[adj] humorously sarcastic or mocking; "dry humor"; "an ironic remark often conveys an intended meaning obliquely"; "an ironic novel"; "an ironical smile"; "with a wry Scottish wit" Synonyms | Synonyms for Ironic: dry | humorous | humourous | incongruous | ironical | wry Related Terms | Find terms related to Ironic: allusive | allusory | amalgamated | ambiguous | ambivalent | amphibious | amphibological | amphibolous | antinomic | biting | blended | caustic | combined | complex | composite | compound | compounded | conglomerate | cutting | cynical | dappled | dry | eclectic | enigmatic | equivocal | equivocatory | fifty-fifty | half-and-half | heterogeneous | implicational | implicative | implicatory | incisive | indicative | indiscriminate | inferential | insinuating | insinuative | insinuatory | intricate | jumbled | many-sided | medley | mingled | miscellaneous | mixed | mordant | motley | multifaceted | multinational | multiracial | multivocal | mysterious | obscure | oxymoronic | paradoxical | patchy | pluralistic | polysemantic | polysemous | promiscuous | Rabelaisian | referential | sarcastic | sardonic | satiric | scathing | scrambled | self-contradictory | suggestive | syncretic | thrown together | trenchant | uncertain | varied | wry See Also | Ironic In Webster's Dictionary \I*ron"ic\, a.
Ironical. --Sir T. Herbert.
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