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When someone can stop others from dying, but not himself.

Ironic. He could save others from death, but not himself.

containing irony irony: -the opposite of the literal meaning -a mismatch between the expected and the actual result

pro-lifers making death threats to Michael Schiavo is ironic

Various states of irony in close succession.

Man, the ironicities of the past week have proceeded to blow my mind.

Something is Ironic when what happens is the opposite of what is expected

It is ironic that Perez Hilton called Will.I.Am a faggot because Perez is gay.

An unfortunate event having a perverse outcome in the particular context.

Publishing an incorrect example of "ironic" on urban dictionary. For example" "rain on your wedding day" is not ironic. That is unfortunate. It would be ironic if you were a weatherman who predicted sunshine on your wedding day. But, that would be tough to sell as a lyric.

an adjectival variation of ironic

The ironical thing is that most people think ironical is an improper form of ironic.

When a hipster has a guilty pleasure they want to publicly partake in, and is pretending not to genuinely enjoy it.

Steve proudly wore his pink Backstreet Boys T-shirt, knowing that his hipster friends would think he was wearing it ironically. He took it even further by posting three whole facebook albums of the concert he got it from.