Definition of ironic | Collins English Dictionary

ironic (aɪˈrɒnɪk) or ironical

iˈronicalness noun

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British English: ironic When you make an ironic remark, you say something that you do not mean, as a joke.People used to call me Mr Popularity at secondary school, but they were being ironic.aɪˈrɒnɪk ADJECTIVE People used to call me Mr Popularity at secondary school, but they were being ironic.
Spanish: irónico adj irónica
French: ironique adj
German: ironisch adj
Chinese: 讽刺的 adj
Arabic: تَهَكُّمِيٌّ adj
Portuguese: irónico adj irónica
Russian: ироничный adj ироничная
Croatian: ironičan adj ironična
Czech: ironický adj
Danish: ironisk adj
Dutch: ironisch adj
Finnish: ironinen adj
Greek: ειρωνικός adj ειρωνική
Italian: ironico adj ironica
Japanese: 皮肉な no_posp
Korean: 풍자적인 adj
Norwegian: ironisk adj
Polish: ironiczny adj ironiczna
Brazilian Portuguese: irônico adj irônica
European Spanish: irónico adj irónica
Swedish: ironisk adj ironiskt
Thai: ที่ชอบเหน็บแนม adj
Turkish: alaycı adj
Vietnamese: mỉa mai adj

How ironic that Gloria Godwit should believe she had bought Stan the H. V. St John poems.
Salley Vickers, INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3 (2002)
Wolpert was helped by cognitive therapy and so he's not ironic about what seems like a prescription to `think better thoughts".
New Scientist (1999)
It's remarkable, and not a little ironic , how much the world of work permeates the big screen.
Globe and Mail (2003)
BACK in June of 1999, the minister then responsible for sport in Scotland spoke a few words which were never intended to be ironic.
Glasgow Herald (2001)
There were ironic cheers from the road where the retreating gunners supposed the two officers to be racing.
Cornwell, Bernard, Sharpe's Waterloo (1991)