Iconic refers to something widely recognized and well-established, often symbolic, whereas ironic denotes an outcome that is the opposite of what was expected, often highlighting a form of discrepancy.
using wordsto convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning; containing or exemplifying irony: an ironic novel; an ironic remark. of, relating to, or tending to use irony or mockery; ironical. How do you say unironic? Phonetic spelling of unironically. uniron-i-cal-ly. u...
Theair they felt like a warm bath into which hotter water is trickling constantly,the temperature rose and rose, the boulders said, “I am alive,” the smallstones answered, “I am almost alive.” Between the chinks lay the ashes oflittle plants. They meant to climb to the rocking-stone...
Suppose individual plants with the tallest phenotypes (which is genetically based) survived and reproduced more than other genotypes. This is an example of ___. (假设表型最高的单株(以遗传为基础的)比其他基因型存活和繁殖更多。这是一...
It is impossible to comprehend what is meant by such a statement as that every truth is somehow connected with religion. It may be that the notion--if it really is not, as I suspect it to be, mere verbiage and clap-trap, used by certain fools to mislead others--means that there is...
To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive — RL Stevenson: a blog on books, films, art, music, culture
Still, the following objection would no doubt be entirely legitimate: if we limit ourselves to this type of always partial and local inquiry or test, do we not run the risk of letting ourselves be determined by more general structures of which we may well not be conscious, and over which ...
No, dear flock, what the Doll is referring to, is my chronic nerve pain. Even with my mind befuddled with Lyrica, I must admit, that not a day goes by that I am not in the middle of a full-blown electrical storm. How ironical that being so full of electrical current can literally...
(even 20 years ago, the arch and ironical reports of our staff cricket team penned by a lecturer in the Philosophy Department were published without adjustment in the local paper). However, these shifts in the news landscape are not a crisis of civilisation, but part of a continuous cycle ...
(This is why he treats ironical utterances (“Nice job!” said to a server who drops a bowl of calamari on my lap) as cases ofmaking as if to say, rather than as cases of saying; otherwise Grice would fall in line with more common usage according to which the speakersaid, “Nice ...