About The Word Irony
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Irony
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What's The Definition Of Irony?
[n] incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; "the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated"
[n] witty language used to convey insults or scorn; "he used sarcasm to upset his opponent"; "irony is wasted on the stupid" [n] a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs Synonyms | Synonyms for Irony: caustic remark | sarcasm | satire Related Terms | Find terms related to Irony: agile wit | ambiguity | ambiguousness | ambivalence | amphibology | antinomy | Atticism | biformity | bifurcation | black humor | burlesque | caricature | causticity | comedy | complexity of meaning | conjugation | cynicism | dichotomy | double entendre | double meaning | double reference | doubleness | doublethink | doubling | dry wit | dualism | duality | duplexity | duplication | duplicity | equivocacy | equivocality | equivocalness | equivocation | esprit | farce | halving | humor | innuendo | invective | Janus | lampoon | levels of meaning | multivocality | nimble wit | oxymoron | pairing | paradox | parody | paronomasia | pleasantry | polarity | polysemousness | polysemy | pretty wit | punning | quick wit | ready wit | richness of meaning | salt | sarcasm | satire | satiric wit | savor of wit | self-contradiction | slapstick | slapstick humor | squib | subtle wit | travesty | twinning | two-facedness | twoness | uncertainty | visual humor | wit See Also | antiphrasis | dramatic irony | figure | figure of speech | humor | humour | image | incongruity | incongruousness | Socratic irony | trope | wit | witticism | wittiness Irony In Webster's Dictionary \I"ron*y\, a. [From {Iron}.]
1. Made or consisting of iron; partaking of iron; iron; as,
irony chains; irony particles. [R.]
\I"ron*y\, n.[L. ironia, Gr. ? dissimulation, fr. ? a dissembler in speech, fr. ? to speak; perh. akin to E. word: cf. F. ironie.] 1. Dissimulation; ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist. 2. A sort of humor, ridicule, or light sarcasm, which adopts a mode of speech the meaning of which is contrary to the literal sense of the words. |
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