unironic

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adjective

Not ironic; free of irony. Sincere or genuine.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

adjectiveunironic (not comparable)

alternative un-ironic

  1. not comparableNot ironic; free of irony. Sincere or genuine.

    "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
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    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

    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

Synonyms & antonyms

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Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Englishironic
  9. Englishunironic

From un- + ironic.

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Translations

Bulgarian неирони́чен
  • неирони́чен (neironíčen)Not ironic
Finnish totinen, tosissaan
  • totinenNot ironic
  • tosissaanNot ironic
  • epäironinenNot ironic
German unironisch
  • unironischNot ironic
Romanian neironic
  • neironicNot ironic
Russian неирони́чный
  • неирони́чный (neironíčnyj)Not ironic
Spanish no/poco/nada irónico, sin ironía (alguna)
  • no/poco/nada irónicoNot ironic
  • sin ironía (alguna)Not ironic
  • sin ironía (ninguna)Not ironic
Cite this entry
APA

unironic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unironic

MLA

“unironic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unironic. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unironic,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unironic.

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