Definition of Ironical

Ironical

Pertaining to irony; containing, expressing, or characterized by, irony; as, an ironical remark.

Addicted to the use of irony; given to irony.

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Ironical Quotations

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.
W. Somerset Maugham

At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
Seamus Heaney

America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.
David Riesman

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Ironical Translations

ironical in German is ironisch, ironisch, ironische
ironical in Swedish is spydlig, ironisk

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