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post-ironic

post-ironic adjective: exhibiting or relating to post-irony.

Adjective

post-ironic (comparative more post-ironic, superlative most post-ironic)

  1. Exhibiting or relating to post-irony.
    • Of course, in these post-ironic times, we love Bon Jovi but we don't love people who don't realise that they're Bon Jovi when they are.2010 January 2, Pete Cashmore, “Music: This week's releases”, in The Guardian
    • And why do you have the Aqua album? […] Wasn't quite the ‘post-ironic Europop masterpiece’ you declared it to be back in 1997 as you were sipping post-ironic absinthe out of post-ironic Charles & Di mugs (she'd just died) in that flat in Tulse Hill […]2010, John O'Connell, The Midlife Manual, Hachette, →ISBN

Examples of post-ironic in a sentence

  • So if you’re wondering what to get the post-ironic teen in your life this Christmas you might want to try eyesores like these thigh-high UGG boots, cowboy sneaker boots, and Nike “fanny pack slides”.2018 November 3, Laura Pitcher, “Teens embracing Crocs is fashion’s latest so-uncool-it's-cool trend”, in The Guardian:
  • At the beginning, me being an artist at the company had been a way for me to maintain what some people have called a “post-ironic” position toward my job.2020, Emily Segal, Mercury Retrograde, New York: Deluge Books, →ISBN:

Forms of post-ironic

comparativemore post-ironic
superlativemost post-ironic
alternative formpostironic

Questions about post-ironic

What does post-ironic mean?
Post-ironic means exhibiting or relating to post-irony.
How do you use post-ironic in a sentence?
So if you’re wondering what to get the post-ironic teen in your life this Christmas you might want to try eyesores like these thigh-high UGG boots, cowboy sneaker boots, and Nike “fanny pack slides”.
What part of speech is post-ironic?
Post-ironic is an adjective.

Words near post-ironic in the dictionary

  1. post-incrementing
  2. post-increments
  3. post-industrialisation
  4. post-industrialization
  5. post-internet
  6. post-ironic
  7. post-ironies
  8. post-irony
  9. post-Islamic
  10. post-it
  11. post-it note

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