Ironic

Adjective

 * 1) Both coincidental and contradictory in a humorous or poignant and extremely improbable way.
 * It is ironic that Einstein, who was such a revolutionary young man, was reduced to irrational denial of quantum mechanics in his later years.

Synonyms

 * ironical

Derived terms

 * ironically
 * dramatic irony
 * Socratic irony

Thesaurus
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

Translations

 * Catalan: irònic
 * Danish: ironisk
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 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 風刺的な
 * Latin: ironicus
 * Polish: ironiczny
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Adjective

 * 1) ironic

Etymology
From ironicus through  ironique

Related terms

 * ironie