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ironic

adjective
 
🔊/aɪˈrɒnɪk/
🔊/aɪˈrɑːnɪk/
(also less frequent ironical
🔊/aɪˈrɒnɪkl/
🔊/aɪˈrɑːnɪkl/
)
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  1.  
    showing that you really mean the opposite of what you are saying; expressing irony反语的；讽刺的
    • an ironic comment讥讽的话
    Extra Examples
    • He was greeted with ironic cheers from opposition MPs.反对党议员向他喝倒彩。
    • She sent him a faintly ironic sideways glance.她向他隐约地讽刺了一下。
    Topics Languagec1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • be
    • seem
    • find something
    • …
    adverb
    • extremely
    • fairly
    • very
    • …
    See full entry
  2.  
    (of a situation情形) strange or funny because it is very different from what you expect（因出乎意料而）奇怪的，好笑的
    • it is ironic that… It's ironic that she became a teacher—she used to hate school.令人啼笑皆非的是她成了教师——她过去一向厌恶学校。🔊🔊
    see also irony
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • be
    • seem
    • find something
    • …
    adverb
    • extremely
    • fairly
    • very
    • …
    See full entry
    3. Word Originmid 17th cent.: from French ironique or late Latin ironicus, from Greek eirōnikos ‘dissembling, feigning ignorance’, from eirōneia ‘simulated ignorance’, from eirōn ‘dissembler’.