ironic

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: i=ron=ic

CIDE DICTIONARY

ironic, a. 

 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

ROGET THESAURUS

ironic

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.