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ironic

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Adjective
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective ironic has 2 senses

  • ironic(s = adj.all) dry, ironical, wry - 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"
  • Derived form noun irony1
  • ironic(s = adj.all) ironical - 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"
  • Derived forms noun irony2, noun irony3

CIDE DICTIONARY

ironica. 
     Ironical.  Sir T. Herbert.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

ironic, adj. (also ironical)
1 using or displaying irony.
2 in the nature of irony.

Derivative
ironically adv.
Etymology
F ironique or LL ironicus f. Gk eironikos dissembling (as IRONY(1))

THESAURUS

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

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Ridicule

N ridicule, derision, sardonic smile, sardonic grin, irrision, scoffing, mockery, quiz, banter, irony, persiflage, raillery, chaff, badinage, quizzing, asteism, squib, satire, skit, quip, quib, grin, parody, burlesque, travesty, travestie, farce, caricature, buffoonery, practical joke, horseplay, scorn, contempt, derisory, derisive, mock, mocking, sarcastic, ironic, ironical, quizzical, burlesque, Hudibrastic, scurrilous, in ridicule.

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