[syn: ironic, ironical]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Ironic \I*ron"ic\, a.
Ironical. --Sir T. Herbert.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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]
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