Ironic

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ironic \I*ron"ic\, a.
     Ironical. --Sir T. Herbert.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  ironic
       adj 1: 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" [syn: {dry}, {ironical}, {wry}]
       2: 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" [syn: {ironical}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  76 Moby Thesaurus words for "ironic":
     Rabelaisian, 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, referential, sarcastic, sardonic, satiric, scathing,
     scrambled, self-contradictory, suggestive, syncretic,
     thrown together, trenchant, uncertain, varied, wry