- irónico
- adj.ironical, ironic, tongue-in-cheek, wry.* * *irónico► adjetivo1 ironic2 (burlón) mocking* * *ADJ [gen] ironic, ironical; (=mordaz) sarcastic* * *-ca adjetivoa) <situación> ironicb) <persona/comentario/tono> sarcastic
en tono irónico — sarcastically
* * *= ironic, tongue-in-cheek, wry [wrier/wryer -comp., wriest/wryest -sup.], ironical.Ex. It is ironic that reduced funding may threaten money-saving automation plans.Ex. This is a tongue-in-cheek report concerned with reducing not only the 'growth rate' of library collections but also their actual size.Ex. While another colleague of mine offered the wry comment that 'as the computer's capabilities have increased our expectations of what it can do have proportionally diminished'.Ex. This is an ironical allusion to 1950s and 1960s catwalk shows.* * *-ca adjetivoa) <situación> ironicb) <persona/comentario/tono> sarcasticen tono irónico — sarcastically
* * *= ironic, tongue-in-cheek, wry [wrier/wryer -comp., wriest/wryest -sup.], ironical.Ex: It is ironic that reduced funding may threaten money-saving automation plans.
Ex: This is a tongue-in-cheek report concerned with reducing not only the 'growth rate' of library collections but also their actual size.Ex: While another colleague of mine offered the wry comment that 'as the computer's capabilities have increased our expectations of what it can do have proportionally diminished'.Ex: This is an ironical allusion to 1950s and 1960s catwalk shows.* * *irónico -caadjective1 ‹situación› ironic2 (burlón) sarcastichizo un comentario irónico sobre la casa he made a sarcastic remark about the houselo dijo en tono irónico she said it sarcastically* * *
irónico◊ -ca adjetivoa) ‹situación› ironicb) ‹persona/comentario/tono› sarcastic;◊ en tono irónico sarcastically
irónico,-a adjetivo ironic
'irónico' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
irónica
- lindeza
- puya
English:
ironic
- ironical
- nice
- some
- wry
* * *irónico, -a adjironic, ironical;lo dije en tono irónico I was being ironic* * *irónicoadj ironic* * *irónico, -ca adj: ironic, ironical♦ irónicamente adv
Spanish-English dictionary. 2013.