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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English ironic English unironic From un- + ironic.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Not ironic; free of irony. Sincere or genuine.
   • Here’s a tip: If a group of people start using something as ironic hate speech, it will eventually be used for unironic hate speech. Don’t act surprised. 2019 December 31, AJ Willingham, “All the trends we loved and hated in the 2010s”, in CNN:
   • Like some lost America, down to blue strata of cigarette smoke and the completely un-ironic deployment of the Frank Sinatra, […] 2003, William Gibson, Pattern Recognition (Bigend cycle; book 1), New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 313:
   • "M Squad," however, is both unironic and, thanks to Marvin's pent-up acting, bracingly modern. 2009 January 11, Ken Tucker, “He’s a Good Guy, but He’s Not Very Nice”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2013:
   • Fenella remembered, that play with the unironic title of A Woman Killed with Kindness, had reflected a civilization a thousand times more complex. 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 242:

Forms

Deriveds

unironically

Translations (10)

bg неирони́чен (Not ironic) · ro neironic (Not ironic) · es sin ironía (alguna) (Not ironic) · fi tosissaan (Not ironic) · es sin ironía (ninguna) (Not ironic) · ru неирони́чный (Not ironic) · fi epäironinen (Not ironic) · fi totinen (Not ironic) · de unironisch (Not ironic) · es no/poco/nada irónico (Not ironic)