ironic

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}, {ironic}, {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: {ironic},
       {ironical}]
    

Ironic \I*ron"ic\, a.
   Ironical. --Sir T. Herbert.
   [1913 Webster]
    

76 Moby Thesaurus words for "ironic":
      Rabelaisian, allusive, allusory, amalgamated, ambiguous,
      ambivalent, amphibious, amphibological, amphibolous, antinomic,
      biting, blended, caustic, combined, complex, composite, compound,
      compounded, conglomerate, cutting, cynical, dappled, dry, eclectic,
      enigmatic, equivocal, equivocatory, fifty-fifty, half-and-half,
      heterogeneous, implicational, implicative, implicatory, incisive,
      indicative, indiscriminate, inferential, insinuating, insinuative,
      insinuatory, intricate, jumbled, many-sided, medley, mingled,
      miscellaneous, mixed, mordant, motley, multifaceted, multinational,
      multiracial, multivocal, mysterious, obscure, oxymoronic,
      paradoxical, patchy, pluralistic, polysemantic, polysemous,
      promiscuous, referential, sarcastic, sardonic, satiric, scathing,
      scrambled, self-contradictory, suggestive, syncretic,
      thrown together, trenchant, uncertain, varied, wry