Usually means: Unexpected outcome contrary to expectation.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word ironic:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. ironic: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ironic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ironic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ironic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ironic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ironic, ironic: Wordnik
  7. ironic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ironic: Wiktionary
  9. ironic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ironic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ironic: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Ironic, ironic: Dictionary.com
  13. ironic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Ironic (song), Ironic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Ironic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. ironic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. ironic: Rhymezone
  18. ironic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. ironic: Free Dictionary
  20. ironic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. ironic: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ironic: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ironic: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ironic: Encyclopedia

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See ironicalness as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (Of a situation) Characterized by or constituting (any kind of) irony.
adjective:  (proscribed) Odd or coincidental; strange.
adjective:  (preceded with "being") Acting in an unserious and teasing manner.
adjective:  (Of a statement, action, etc.) Done in an insincere and mocking manner; satirical.

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