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 ExamplesTopics Languagec1He 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. 她向他瞟了一眼，略带讽刺。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
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(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。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- seem
- find something
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- extremely
- fairly
- very
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- it is ironic that…
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from French ironique or late Latin ironicus, from Greek eirōnikos ‘dissembling, feigning ignorance’, from eirōneia ‘simulated ignorance’, from eirōn ‘dissembler’.