I*ron"ic (?), a. Ironical. Sir T. Herbert.

• Both Coincidental and contradictory in a humorous or poignant and extremely improbable way.
       Examples
       *It is ironic that Einstein, who was such a revolutionary as young man, was reduced to irrational denial of quantum mechanics in his later years.
       *It is ironic that Bruce Campbell cut his hand off with a chainsaw when it was possessed by a demon, and then replaced his hand with the same chainsaw, becoming a demon-fighting machine. (based on the movie Army of Darkness)