From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
ironic
adj 1: humorously sarcastic or mocking; "dry humor"; "an ironic
remark often conveys an intended meaning obliquely";
"an ironic novel"; "an ironical smile"; "with a wry
Scottish wit" [syn: dry, ironical, wry]
2: characterized by often poignant difference or incongruity
between what is expected and what actually is; "madness,
an ironic fate for such a clear thinker"; "it was ironical
that the well-planned scheme failed so completely" [syn:
ironical]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Ironic \I*ron"ic\, a.
Ironical. --Sir T. Herbert.
[1913 Webster]