Characterized by often poignant difference or incongruity between what is expected and what actually is:
— It was ironical that the well-planned scheme failed so completely.

synonym: ironic.

Roget 856: derisory, derisive; mock, mocking; sarcastic, ironic, ironical, quizzical, burlesque, Hudibrastic^†; scurrilous etc. (disrespectful) 929.    ... show more

Roget 853: ridiculous, ludicrous; comical; droll, funny, laughable, pour rire, grotesque, farcical, odd; whimsical, whimsical as a dancing bear; fanciful, fantastic, queer, rum, quizzical, quaint, bizarre; screaming; eccentric etc. (unconformable) 83; strange, outlandish, out of the way, baroque, weird; awkward etc. (ugly) 846.    extravagant, outre, monstrous, preposterous, bombastic, inflated, stilted, burlesque, mock heroic.    drollish; seriocomic, tragicomic; gimcrack, contemptible etc. (unimportant) 643; doggerel; ironical etc. (derisive) 856; risible.    ... show more

Roget 546: untrue, false, phony, trumped up; void of foundation, without-foundation; fictive, far from the truth, false as dicer's oaths; unfounded, ben trovato [It], invented, fabulous, fabricated, forged; fictitious, factitious, supposititious, surreptitious; elusory^†, illusory; ironical; soi-disant [Fr.] etc. (misnamed) 565.    ... show more

Roget 521: metaphorical, figurative, catachrestical^†, typical, tralatitious^†, parabolic, allegorical, allusive, anagogical^†; ironical; colloquial; tropical.   

Humorously sarcastic or mocking:
— An ironical smile.

synonyms: dry, ironic, wry.

Polish: ironiczny