IRONY
\ˈa͡ɪɹənɪ], \ˈaɪɹənɪ], \ˈaɪ_ɹ_ə_n_ɪ]\
Definitions of IRONY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; "the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated"
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witty language used to convey insults or scorn; "he used sarcasm to upset his opponent"; "irony is wasted on the stupid"; "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own"--Johathan Swift
By Princeton University
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incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; "the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Made or consisting of iron; partaking of iron; iron; as, irony chains; irony particles.
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Resembling iron taste, hardness, or other physical property.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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Made or consisting of iron; partaking of iron; iron; as, irony chains; irony particles.
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Resembling iron taste, hardness, or other physical property.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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Sarcasm; a mode of speech meaning the opposite of what is said; as, to cry like a baby-that's a fine way for a man to act, said he with keen irony.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Made, consisting, or partaking of iron: like iron: hard.
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A mode of speech conveying the opposite of what is meant: satire.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Partaking of iron; resembling iron.
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A mode of speech in which the meaning of the speaker is contrary to his words; a delicate species of sarcasm.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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