ironic

3 definitions found

ironic - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

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

ironic - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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, ironic, 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: ironic,
         ironical]

ironic - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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