'Ironic' definitions:
Definition of 'ironic'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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]
adjective
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]
Definition of 'Ironic'
From: GCIDE
- Ironic \I*ron"ic\, a. Ironical. --Sir T. Herbert. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'ironic'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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
Words containing 'Ironic'
- Iron,
- Ironed,
- Ironer,
- Ironical,
- Ironically,
- Ironing,
- It irons,
- T iron,
- iron out,
- irone,
- irones,
- irons,
- Bar iron,
- Barking irons,
- Berlin iron,
- Bog iron,
- Boiler iron,
- Boom iron,
- Brand iron,
- Branding iron,
- Bridle iron,
- Bucking iron,
- Burling iron,
- Calking iron,
- Cast iron,
- Channel iron,
- Chinsing iron,
- Corrugated iron,
- Cramp iron,
- Crimping iron,
- Crisping iron,
- Curling irons,
- Damascus iron,
- Decarbonized iron,
- Fagot iron,
- Fire irons,
- Firing iron,
- Fluting iron,
- Foot iron,
- Galvanized iron,
- Gauffering iron,
- Grappling iron,
- Gray iron,
- Gray irons,
- Grozing iron,
- Harping iron,
- Hawser iron,
- Hoop iron,
- Horse iron,
- Ingot iron,
- Iron City,
- Iron County,
- Iron Gate,
- Iron Horse,
- Iron Junction,
- Iron Mountain,
- Iron Post,
- Iron Ridge,
- Iron River,
- Iron age,
- Iron cement,
- Iron clay,
- Iron cross,
- Iron crown,
- Iron flint,
- Iron founder,
- Iron foundry,
- Iron furnace,
- Iron glance,
- Iron hat,
- Iron liquor,
- Iron man,
- Iron mold,
- Iron mould,
- Iron ore,
- Iron oxide,
- Iron pyrites,
- Iron sand,
- Iron scale,
- Iron works,
- Iron, MI,
- Iron, MO,
- Iron, UT,
- Iron, WI,
- Ironing board,
- Italian iron,
- Jagging iron,
- Light iron,
- Lily iron,
- Lofting iron,
- Magnetic iron,
- Malleable iron,
- Meaking iron,
- Merchant iron,
- Metallic iron,
- Meteoric iron,
- Mountain Iron,
- Muck iron,
- Passive iron,
- Pig iron,
- Pinking iron,
- Plane iron,
- Plate iron,
- Polishing iron,
- Pyrophoric iron,
- Rasing iron,
- Reduced iron,
- Reeming iron,
- Ripping iron,
- Rub iron,
- Russia iron,
- Sable iron,
- Scalping iron,
- Scrap iron,
- Scribing iron,
- Shooting iron,
- Silvery iron,
- Smoothing iron,
- Snarling iron,
- Soldering iron,
- Span iron,
- Sparry iron,
- Spathic iron,
- Specular iron,
- Spiegel iron,
- Steely iron,
- Stirrup iron,
- Stub iron,
- Sweating iron,
- Tamping iron,
- Tank iron,
- Tee iron,
- The Iron Gates,
- Tire iron,
- Toggle iron,
- Tug iron,
- Turfing iron,
- Wafer irons,
- Waffle iron,
- Weeding iron,
- White iron,
- Wire iron,
- Wrought iron,
- alloy iron,
- alpha iron,
- angle iron,
- basic iron,
- beta iron,
- chromic iron,
- climbing iron,
- curling iron,
- delta iron,
- driving iron,
- fire iron,
- five iron,
- gamma iron,
- gaufering iron,
- goffering iron,
- iron blue,
- iron boot,
- iron by hydrogen,
- iron cage,
- iron carbide,
- iron chancellor,
- iron collar,
- iron curtain,
- iron disulfide,
- iron duke,
- iron filing,
- iron fist,
- iron grip,
- iron hand,
- iron heel,
- iron lady,
- iron lung,
- iron maiden,
- iron oak,
- iron out differences,
- iron overload,
- iron perchloride,
- iron putty,
- iron pyrite,
- iron sickness,
- iron trap,
- iron tree,
- iron-on,
- long iron,
- nine iron,
- oligist iron,
- one iron,
- putting iron,
- searing iron,
- seven iron,
- sheet iron,
- short iron,
- steam iron,
- stovepipe iron,
- structural iron,
- sulphate of iron,
- swedish iron,
- travel iron,
- two iron,
- dry ironic ironical pawky wry,
- Box-iron,
- Brown iron ore,
- Cast-iron,
- Green iron ore,
- Iron City, GA,
- Iron City, TN,
- Iron County, MI,
- Iron County, MO,
- Iron County, UT,
- Iron County, WI,
- Iron Gate, VA,
- Iron Horse, CA,
- Iron Junction, MN,
- Iron Mountain Lake,
- Iron Mountain, MI,
- Iron Post, OK,
- Iron Ridge, WI,
- Iron River, MI,
- Iron-cased,
- Iron-gray,
- Iron-hearted,
- Iron-sick,
- Iron-sided,
- Magnetic iron ore,
- Making-iron,
- Malleable iron castings,
- Mountain Iron, MN,
- Rhombohedral iron ore,
- Titanic iron ore,
- Too many irons in the fire,
- Tue-iron,
- Tue-irons,
- White iron pyrites,
- alloy cast iron,
- alpha-irone,
- dog-iron,
- iron deficiency anaemia,
- iron deficiency anemia,
- iron maiden of Nuremberg,
- iron manganese tungsten,
- iron-fisted,
- iron-grey,
- iron-tree,
- specular pig iron,
- Iron Mountain Lake, MO,
- Ni-hard iron,
- Parkers-Iron Springs,
- cast-iron plant,
- iron-storage disease,
- magnetic iron-ore,
- ni-resist iron,
- nickel-iron accumulator,
- nickel-iron battery,
- wrought-iron casting,
- wrought-iron scrap,
- Parkers-Iron Springs, AR