单词 | unironical |
释义 | unironicaladj. Not ironic; lacking in irony; = unironic adj.Unironic is now more common that unironical. ΚΠ 1878 C. Simon in G. Berkeley Princ. Human Knowl. (new ed.) App. ii. 205 When once Kant found Hume's arguments and inferences to be unironical [It. non-ironiche] and serious enough to require a serious refutation,—almost every one then..found them to be entirely devoid of this sarcasm and this irony. 1904 Harper's Mag. Dec. 480/1 Even if Mr Meredith was wholly unironical in his notion of a time limit, we are in a position to testify that he was not original. 1942 Scrutiny 10 345 Shakespeare's power to present acceptably and movingly the unironical vision (for us given in Miranda and Ferdinand) goes with his power to contemplate the irony at the same time. 2011 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 12 Jan. 20 Thank heavens for unironical Americans. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1878 |
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