Meaning of IRONY
| Pronunciation: | | 'Iurnee
|
 WordNet Dictionary |
| |
| | Definition: | |
- [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
|
| |
| | Websites: | |
|
| |
| | Synonyms: | | caustic remark, sarcasm, satire |
| |
| | See Also: | | antiphrasis, dramatic irony, figure, figure of speech, humor, humour, image, incongruity, incongruousness, Socratic irony, trope, wit, witticism, wittiness | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
| |
| | Definition: | |
\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.
|
| |
| | Websites: | |
|
| |
| Thesaurus Terms |
| |
| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
| |
|
|
|