[n.;adj]
Coincidental Irony
As it is more commonly used and understood, irony is any odd, perhaps vaguely comical, coincidence. Alanis Morissette popularized this version of irony with her song Ironic, in which she described "rain on your wedding day," "free ride when you already paid", and the "good advice that you just didn't take" as ironic. Again, such incidents are not ironic in the traditional sense of the word; they are merely bizarre flukes of fate (and, in the case of not taking good advice, stupidity). However, a song entitled 'ironic' which contains no irony at all is, in itself, ironic.