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ironic, a.|aɪˈrɒnɪk|
[ad. late L. īrōnic-us, a. Gr. εἰρωνικός ‘dissembling, putting on a feigned ignorance’, f. εἰρωνεία dissimulation, irony. Cf. F. ironique (yronicque, 1521 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
Pertaining to irony; uttering or given to irony; of the nature of or containing irony; = ironical.
1630B. Jonson New Inn iii. ii, Most Socratick lady! Or if you will, ironick! 1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 12 That Ironic Satyre of Juvenal. 1788H. Walpole Lett. xv. 118 If there was anything ironic in my meaning, it was levelled at your readers, not at you. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. iv, An ironic man..more especially an ironic young man..may be viewed as a pest to society. 1879G. Meredith Egoist xv. (1889) 140 She could have asked him in her fit of ironic iciness..whether the romance might be his piece of religion. 1883A. Dobson Fielding 29 How his ironic lightning plays Around a rogue and all his ways! |