ironicadj.

Brit.

/ʌɪˈrɒnɪk/, U.S.

/aɪˈrɑnɪk/

Forms: 1600s ironick, 1600s ironique, 1600s– ironic.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin ironicus.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin ironicus ironical, mocking (6th cent.), pretended, feigned (from 13th cent. in British sources) < ancient Greek εἰρωνικός dissembling, insincere < εἴρων dissembler (see irony n.) + -ικός -ic suffix. Compare Middle French, French ironique (1521 as yronicque ), Spanish irónico (implied from 1557 by irónicamente , adverb), Portuguese irônico (15th cent.), Italian ironico (end of the 14th cent.); also Dutch ironisch (1600), German ironisch (1564). Compare earlier ironical adj., ironically adv.

a. Of language, style, manner of expression, etc.: of the nature of, containing, or characterized by irony (irony n. 1a); = ironical adj. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > caustic or ironic ridicule > [adjective]

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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > wit with words > irony > [adjective]

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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > wit with words > irony > [adjective] > addicted to irony

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [adjective] > ironic

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southpaw1957

1614 Bp. W. Cowper Dikaiologie 143 You seeme to be very earnest here, but all men may see it is but your Orpit or Ironic conceit.

1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 12 That Ironic Satyre of Juvenal.

1712 tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Wks. I. 248 Each against th' Ironic Figure arm'd, his Pen, to blot the Passive Paper draws.

1789 H. Walpole Let. 19 Aug. (1906) IX. 210 If there was anything ironic in my meaning, it was levelled at your readers, not at you.

1801 Lady's Monthly Museum Feb. 136 Few have strength of mind to combat the assailant who, by ironic satire, deeply stings.

1879 G. Meredith Egoist I. xv. 280 She could have asked him in her fit of ironic iciness..whether the romance might be his piece of religion.

1906 Social-Democrat 15 Mar. 175 The gentlemen who add to their advertisements for coachman or gardener the ironic phrase: ‘No scholar need apply’.

1985 R. Davies What's bred in Bone iv. 222 His customary expression was a smile, which was not mirthful, but ironic.

2004 T. R. Griffiths in L. Marcus & P. Nicholls Cambr. Hist. 20th-cent. Eng. Lit. xxvii. 508 His ironic juxtaposition of comic routines and human suffering.

b. Of a person: using or given to irony; = ironical adj. 2a.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > caustic or ironic ridicule > [adjective] > disposed to

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1674 E. Settle Notes on Empress of Morocco Revised 68 He has a little of Bays his confidence too, to believe this Line more elegant, than our Ironick friend is pleased to think it.

1753 Midwife 3 125 Thoughts of gay and humorous Drift, Such as thou gav'st ironic Swift.

1766 F. Gentleman Royal Fables ix. 46 Untouch'd with idle hasty passion, By this ironic fool of fashion,..The Moralist look'd up, and smil'd.

1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. iv. 47/2 An ironic man,..more especially an ironic young man,..may be viewed as a pest to society.

1897 19th Cent. Feb. 287 ‘It is a pity—a misfortune for England,’ said Marion Carr, regretfully. ‘You are ironic, Mrs. Carr.’

1921 A. Bennett Things that have interested Me 292 If the author was here being ironic at the expense of Presidents, then his irony was out of key with the situation.

1958 E. Heller (title) The ironic German: a study of Thomas Mann.

1997 Sewanee Rev. 105 555 His [sc. Camus's] masterly indictment of modern ironic man and the political and moral world that made irony an understandable, if not appropriate, response.

2008 J. Irwin Murder on Darts Board viii. 180 I don't think she appreciated that I was being ironic.

2. Feigned, dissembling; esp. (and in later use only) employing or characterized by Socratic irony. See irony n. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [adjective]

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1631 B. Jonson New Inne iii. ii. 237 Most Socratick Lady! Or, if you will Ironick!

1670 T. Gale tr. St. Augustine in Court of Gentiles: Pt. II iii. v. 270 Those very things, which he [sc. Plato] had learnt from others, or had acquired by his own intelligence, he tempers with, or wraps up under his Master Socrates's Ironick mode.

1765 R. Hurd Moral & Polit. Dialogues (ed. 3) I. Pref. p. xxvi The Ironic manner of the Socratic Dialogue.

1851 Methodist Q. Rev. Apr. 189 The empty sophistry which resulted from the Pantheism of Xenophanes and Parmenides, led to the ironic doubt of Socrates.

1880 C. Morris Man. Classical Lit. i. 158 The ironic philosopher would put a few further questions, to make quite sure that he understood the meaning.

1953 N. Frye in Shakespeare Q. 4 272 The ironic Socrates, who deprecates his own knowledge, demolishes the boastful Thrasymachus.

2006 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 127 68 Socrates' strangeness, in other words, is a pose (and thus part of that constellation of Socratic behavior labeled ironic).

3. Of a situation, event, or outcome: cruelly, humorously, or strangely at odds with assumptions or expectations; of the nature of an irony (irony n. 3); = ironical adj. 4.

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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > equivocal quality, ambiguity > paradox > [adjective]

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1889 A. M. F. Robinson End Middle Ages 265 By an ironic turn of fate, on the very day on which the army evacuated Novara, 20,000 Swiss came to the relief of the king.

1940 Times of India 12 Mar. 6/6 How ironic that today this emblem of peace [sc. the swastika] should decorate the bellicose banners of Nazidom!

1970 K. Williams Diary 29 Sept. (1993) 385 It is ironic that all complaints of unoriginality come from people who haven't an original thought in their bodies.

1982 Vegetarian Times Nov. 47/1 It's ironic that today it [sc. Thanksgiving] is touted as a celebration of peace and life when a bloody massacre may have started the whole thing.

2011 Art Q. Autumn 44/2 When I was doing the line drawings, I was trying to find a way of being style-less. The ironic thing is that it has become my style.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	ironic
释义	ironicadj. Brit. /ʌɪˈrɒnɪk/, U.S. /aɪˈrɑnɪk/ Forms: 1600s ironick, 1600s ironique, 1600s– ironic. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin ironicus. Etymology: < post-classical Latin ironicus ironical, mocking (6th cent.), pretended, feigned (from 13th cent. in British sources) < ancient Greek εἰρωνικός dissembling, insincere < εἴρων dissembler (see irony n.) + -ικός -ic suffix. Compare Middle French, French ironique (1521 as yronicque ), Spanish irónico (implied from 1557 by irónicamente , adverb), Portuguese irônico (15th cent.), Italian ironico (end of the 14th cent.); also Dutch ironisch (1600), German ironisch (1564). Compare earlier ironical adj., ironically adv. 1. a. Of language, style, manner of expression, etc.: of the nature of, containing, or characterized by irony (irony n. 1a); = ironical adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > caustic or ironic ridicule > [adjective] satiric1509 satirien1509 satiricala1529 ironical1536 dry1542 Lucianical1561 satirial1579 sardonian1586 ironized1596 sarcasmical1602 ironic1614 Sardinian?1615 sardoin1633 sardonic1638 sarcastical1641 sardan1649 sarcasmous1663 sarcastic1695 witty1700 sarcasmatical1716 caustic1771 nippit1808 Lucianic1820 sardonican1837 quippy1859 sardonical1859 quipsome1881 sarky1912 Lucianesque1969 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > wit with words > irony > [adjective] ironical1536 ironized1596 ironic1614 wry1928 tongue-in-cheek1933 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > wit with words > irony > [adjective] > addicted to irony ironical1582 ironic1614 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [adjective] > ironic ironious1534 ironical1536 ironized1596 ironic1614 southpaw1957 1614 Bp. W. Cowper Dikaiologie 143 You seeme to be very earnest here, but all men may see it is but your Orpit or Ironic conceit. 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 12 That Ironic Satyre of Juvenal. 1712 tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Wks. I. 248 Each against th' Ironic Figure arm'd, his Pen, to blot the Passive Paper draws. 1789 H. Walpole Let. 19 Aug. (1906) IX. 210 If there was anything ironic in my meaning, it was levelled at your readers, not at you. 1801 Lady's Monthly Museum Feb. 136 Few have strength of mind to combat the assailant who, by ironic satire, deeply stings. 1879 G. Meredith Egoist I. xv. 280 She could have asked him in her fit of ironic iciness..whether the romance might be his piece of religion. 1906 Social-Democrat 15 Mar. 175 The gentlemen who add to their advertisements for coachman or gardener the ironic phrase: ‘No scholar need apply’. 1985 R. Davies What's bred in Bone iv. 222 His customary expression was a smile, which was not mirthful, but ironic. 2004 T. R. Griffiths in L. Marcus & P. Nicholls Cambr. Hist. 20th-cent. Eng. Lit. xxvii. 508 His ironic juxtaposition of comic routines and human suffering. b. Of a person: using or given to irony; = ironical adj. 2a. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > caustic or ironic ridicule > [adjective] > disposed to ironical1582 satirical1589 satiric1596 ironic1674 1674 E. Settle Notes on Empress of Morocco Revised 68 He has a little of Bays his confidence too, to believe this Line more elegant, than our Ironick friend is pleased to think it. 1753 Midwife 3 125 Thoughts of gay and humorous Drift, Such as thou gav'st ironic Swift. 1766 F. Gentleman Royal Fables ix. 46 Untouch'd with idle hasty passion, By this ironic fool of fashion,..The Moralist look'd up, and smil'd. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. iv. 47/2 An ironic man,..more especially an ironic young man,..may be viewed as a pest to society. 1897 19th Cent. Feb. 287 ‘It is a pity—a misfortune for England,’ said Marion Carr, regretfully. ‘You are ironic, Mrs. Carr.’ 1921 A. Bennett Things that have interested Me 292 If the author was here being ironic at the expense of Presidents, then his irony was out of key with the situation. 1958 E. Heller (title) The ironic German: a study of Thomas Mann. 1997 Sewanee Rev. 105 555 His [sc. Camus's] masterly indictment of modern ironic man and the political and moral world that made irony an understandable, if not appropriate, response. 2008 J. Irwin Murder on Darts Board viii. 180 I don't think she appreciated that I was being ironic. 2. Feigned, dissembling; esp. (and in later use only) employing or characterized by Socratic irony. See irony n. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [adjective] fainta1340 counterfeit1393 pretense1395 feinta1400 feigned1413 disguisyc1430 colourable1433 pretending1434 simulate1435 dissimuled1475 simulative1490 coloureda1500 dissimulate?a1500 simuled1526 colorate1528 dissembled1539 mock1548 devised1552 pretended?1553 artificial1564 supposed1566 counterfeited1569 supposing?1574 affecteda1586 pretensive1607 false1609 supposite1611 simulara1616 simulatory1618 simulated1622 put-ona1625 ironic1631 ironical1646 devisable1659 pretensional1659 pretenced1660 pretensory1663 vizarded1663 shammed?c1677 sham1681 faux1684 fictitious1739 ostensible1762 made-up1773 mala fide1808 assumed1813 semblative1814 fictioned1820 pretextual1837 pseudo1854 fictive1855 schlenter1881 faked1890 phoney1893 phantom1897 1631 B. Jonson New Inne iii. ii. 237 Most Socratick Lady! Or, if you will Ironick! 1670 T. Gale tr. St. Augustine in Court of Gentiles: Pt. II iii. v. 270 Those very things, which he [sc. Plato] had learnt from others, or had acquired by his own intelligence, he tempers with, or wraps up under his Master Socrates's Ironick mode. 1765 R. Hurd Moral & Polit. Dialogues (ed. 3) I. Pref. p. xxvi The Ironic manner of the Socratic Dialogue. 1851 Methodist Q. Rev. Apr. 189 The empty sophistry which resulted from the Pantheism of Xenophanes and Parmenides, led to the ironic doubt of Socrates. 1880 C. Morris Man. Classical Lit. i. 158 The ironic philosopher would put a few further questions, to make quite sure that he understood the meaning. 1953 N. Frye in Shakespeare Q. 4 272 The ironic Socrates, who deprecates his own knowledge, demolishes the boastful Thrasymachus. 2006 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 127 68 Socrates' strangeness, in other words, is a pose (and thus part of that constellation of Socratic behavior labeled ironic). 3. Of a situation, event, or outcome: cruelly, humorously, or strangely at odds with assumptions or expectations; of the nature of an irony (irony n. 3); = ironical adj. 4. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > equivocal quality, ambiguity > paradox > [adjective] paradoxal1602 paradox1624 paradoxial1624 paradoxic1632 paradoxical1638 paradoxographical1814 Irish1820 ironical1868 ironic1889 1889 A. M. F. Robinson End Middle Ages 265 By an ironic turn of fate, on the very day on which the army evacuated Novara, 20,000 Swiss came to the relief of the king. 1940 Times of India 12 Mar. 6/6 How ironic that today this emblem of peace [sc. the swastika] should decorate the bellicose banners of Nazidom! 1970 K. Williams Diary 29 Sept. (1993) 385 It is ironic that all complaints of unoriginality come from people who haven't an original thought in their bodies. 1982 Vegetarian Times Nov. 47/1 It's ironic that today it [sc. Thanksgiving] is touted as a celebration of peace and life when a bloody massacre may have started the whole thing. 2011 Art Q. Autumn 44/2 When I was doing the line drawings, I was trying to find a way of being style-less. The ironic thing is that it has become my style. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1614
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