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Word Meanings - IRONICAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Pertaining to irony; containing, expressing, or characterized by, irony; as, an ironical remark. 2. Addicted to the use of irony; given to irony. -- I*ron"ic*al*ly, adv. -- I*ron"ic*al*ness, n.

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  • BITTERWEED
    A species of Ambrosia ; Roman worm wood. Gray.
  • BITTERSWEET
    Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence , pleasant but painful.
  • BITTERS
    A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped.
  • INVECTIVE
    Characterized by invection; critical; denunciatory; satirical; abusive; railing.
  • CUTTING
    1. The act or process of making an incision, or of severing, felling, shaping, etc. 2. Something cut, cut off, or cut out, as a twig or
  • POIGNANTLY
    In a poignant manner.
  • CUTTHROAT
    One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.
  • BITTERBUMP
    the butterbump or bittern.
  • BITTERWORT
    The yellow gentian , which has a very bitter taste.
  • INVECTIVELY
    In an invective manner. Shak.
  • CUTTYSTOOL
    1. A low stool 2. A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister.
  • BITTERLY
    In a bitter manner.
  • BITTERWOOD
    A West Indian tree from the wood of which the bitter drug Jamaica quassia is obtained.
  • BITTERISH
    Somewhat bitter. Goldsmith.
  • BITTERN
    1. The brine which remains in salt works after the salt is concreted, having a bitter taste from the chloride of magnesium which it contains. 2. A very bitter compound of quassia, cocculus Indicus, etc., used by fraudulent brewers in adulterating
  • BITTERFUL
    Full of bitterness.
  • BITTER
    AA turn of the cable which is round the bitts. Bitter end, that part of a cable which is abaft the bitts, and so within board, when the ship rides at anchor.
  • BITTER SPAR
    A common name of dolomite; -- so called because it contains magnesia, the soluble salts of which are bitter. See Dolomite.
  • CUTTY
    Short; as, a cutty knife; a cutty sark.
  • CUTTLE BONE
    The shell or bone of cuttlefishes, used for various purposes, as for making polishing powder, etc.
  • IMBITTER
    To make bitter; hence, to make distressing or more distressing; to make sad, morose, sour, or malignant. Is there anything that more imbitters the enjoyment of this life than shame South. Imbittered against each other by former contests. Bancroft.
  • STRAW-CUTTER
    An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
  • SWARD-CUTTER
    A plow for turning up grass land. A lawn mower.
  • SCUTTLE
    both fr. L. scutella, dim. of scutra, scuta, a dish or platter; cf. 1. A broad, shallow basket. 2. A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.
  • IMBITTERMENT
    The act of imbittering; bitter feeling; embitterment.
  • CHALKCUTTER
    A man who digs chalk.
  • STONECUTTING
    Hewing or dressing stone.

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