Definitions for ironic

ironic i·ron·ic

Spelling: [ahy-ron-ik]
IPA: /aɪˈrɒn ɪk/

Ironic is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 62 anagrams from letters in ironic (ciinor).

Definitions for ironic

adjective

  1. using words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning; containing or exemplifying irony:
  2. of, relating to, or tending to use irony or mockery; ironical.
  3. coincidental; unexpected:

Origin of ironic

1620-30; Late Latin īrōnicus Greek eirōnikós dissembling, insincere. See irony1, -ic

Examples for ironic

So it was ironic a couple of months later when the Tea Partiers were railing against it—it had already expired.

Fate, the ironic interloper, had taken a hand in this evil game.

What a subject I have presented to you all these years for the exercise of your ironic faculty!

How ironic and unfortunate that the critics tend to focus on one “bad” class or the other.

Was this the ironic destiny of all ideals too austere for earth, too divine for humanity?

That is ironic politically because just this spring Obama asked Congress to narrow the 2001 AUMF or even consider phasing it out.

The ironic part of it was that, for all that had happened, I was busier all the time.

How ironic that the Hermit Kingdom is taking the blame for our first real look inside a clique that not even Vice dares penetrate.

Her mother turned the echo of this phrase into an ironic lament.

ironic, since it was originally meant to suppress sugar lust.

Word Value for ironic
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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