unironic
unironic adjective: not ironic; free of irony. Sincere or genuine.
Adjective
unironic (not comparable)
- Not ironic; free of irony. Sincere or genuine.
- 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
- 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
Examples of unironic in a sentence
- "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:
- 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.2019 December 31, AJ Willingham, “All the trends we loved and hated in the 2010s”, in CNN:
Forms of unironic
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Origin of unironic
From un- + ironic.
Words formed from unironic
Questions about unironic
- What does unironic mean?
- Unironic means not ironic; free of irony. Sincere or genuine.
- How do you use unironic in a sentence?
- "M Squad," however, is both unironic and, thanks to Marvin's pent-up acting, bracingly modern.
- What part of speech is unironic?
- Unironic is an adjective.
Words near unironic in the dictionary
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