1 showing that you really mean the opposite of what you are saying; expressing IRONY:
an ironic comment / smile
2 (of a situation) strange or amusing because it is very different from what you expect:
It's ironic that she became a teacher-she used to hate school.
seealsoIRONY
ironically adverb:
Ironically, the book she felt was her worst sold more copies than any of her others. * He smiled ironically.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for ironic is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is ironic a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, ironic is tagged as adjective.
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