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Definition of Ironically
1. Adverb. Contrary to plan or expectation. "Ironically, he ended up losing money under his own plan"
2. Adverb. In an ironic manner. "She began to mimic him ironically"
Definition of Ironically
1. Adverb. (context: manner) In an ironic manner, in a way displaying irony. ¹
2. Adverb. (context: evaluative) (non-gloss definition Used to draw attention to an ironic aspect of a situation being described.) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ironically
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ironically
Literary usage of Ironically
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"The word should have only one r. ironically Bremner 1980 advises us to let the
reader decide whether something we write is ironic or not, and not to preface ..."
2. The Law of Libel and Slander in Civil and Criminal Cases: As Administered in by Martin L. Newell (1898)
"Words Spoken Ironically.— The plaintiff may also aver in his declaration that the
... It is actionable to say ironically: " You will not play the Jew or the ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"His shifts of condition enable him to survey ironically different social conditions.
His ups and downs are many, but his main drift is from indigence to ..."
4. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"... or that apologetical oration he made at Antioch to excuse himself, he doth
ironically confess, it hindered his kissing, nam non licuit inde pura puris, ..."
5. The Anatomy of melancholy v. 3 by Robert Burton (1875)
"pogone, or that apologetical oration he made at Antioch to excuse himself, he
doth ironically confess, it hindered his kissing, nom non limit inde pura ..."
6. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"The word should have only one r. ironically Bremner 1980 advises us to let the
reader decide whether something we write is ironic or not, and not to preface ..."
7. The Law of Libel and Slander in Civil and Criminal Cases: As Administered in by Martin L. Newell (1898)
"Words Spoken Ironically.— The plaintiff may also aver in his declaration that the
... It is actionable to say ironically: " You will not play the Jew or the ..."
8. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"His shifts of condition enable him to survey ironically different social conditions.
His ups and downs are many, but his main drift is from indigence to ..."
9. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"... or that apologetical oration he made at Antioch to excuse himself, he doth
ironically confess, it hindered his kissing, nam non licuit inde pura puris, ..."
10. The Anatomy of melancholy v. 3 by Robert Burton (1875)
"pogone, or that apologetical oration he made at Antioch to excuse himself, he
doth ironically confess, it hindered his kissing, nom non limit inde pura ..."
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