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Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (2)
1. humorously sarcastic or mocking;
- Example: "dry humor"
- Example: "an ironic remark often conveys an intended meaning obliquely"
- Example: "an ironic novel"
- Example: "an ironical smile"
- Example: "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;
- Example: "madness, an ironic fate for such a clear thinker"
- Example: "it was ironical that the well-planned scheme failed so completely"
[syn: ironic, ironical]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Ironic \I*ron"ic\, a. Ironical. --Sir T. Herbert. [1913 Webster]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
