Qualities
Synonyms for ironic
The synonym for ironic recorded in this bank is dry, in the sense "humorously sarcastic or mocking". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for ironic
- dryadjective, in the sense "humorously sarcastic or mocking"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and ironic carries one sense so far.
humorously sarcastic or mocking
An ironic remark often conveys an intended meaning obliquely.
The true synonym
dry
Same sentence, swapped: An dry remark often conveys an intended meaning obliquely.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where ironic stands in the sentence above.
- combined
- scrambled
- uncertain
Where ironic turns up in the game
ironic is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play ironic
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so ironic reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because qualities is the company ironic keeps.
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