Betekenis van:
ironic

ironic
Bijvoeglijk naamwoord
  • met ironie
  • characterized by often poignant difference or incongruity between what is expected and what actually is
"madness, an ironic fate for such a clear thinker"
"it was ironical that the well-planned scheme failed so completely"

Synoniemen

ironic
Bijvoeglijk naamwoord
  • geestig
  • humorously sarcastic or mocking
"an ironic remark often conveys an intended meaning obliquely"
"an ironic novel"

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Hyperoniemen


Voorbeeldzinnen

  1. That's ironic.
  2. It's ironic.
  3. Ironic, isn't it?
  4. I was being ironic.
  5. It was ironic.
  6. It's rather ironic.
  7. Isn't that ironic?
  8. In a cruelly ironic twist of fate, someday Tatoeba will make an example of us all.
  9. When people use the word "ironic", they may mean "comically incongruous".
  10. It's ironic that one of the most colonialist countries of all times accuses Buenos Aires of colonialism!
  11. It is ironic that one of the most colonialist countries of all times accuses Buenos Aires of being colonialist!
  12. Imogen of the Internet, in spite of her American nationality, opened a Mixi account just to show off her ironic purikura album.
  13. "Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is quite a long word, isn't it?" "Yes, but do you know what it means?" "Actually, I don't." "It means fear of long words." "How ironic."
  14. French poet, Alcanter de Brahm, proposed the irony mark (؟) towards the end of the 19th century to indicate a sentence which should be understood as ironic or sarcastic.