Irony

Noun

 * 1) A statement that, when taken in context, may actually mean something different from, or the opposite of what is written literally; the use of words expressing something other than their literal intention, notably as a form of humor.
 * 2) Dramatic irony: a theatrical effect in which the meaning of a situation, or some incongruity in the plot, is understood by the audience, but not by the characters in the play.
 * 3) Ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist; Socratic irony.

Adjective

 * 1) Of or pertaining to the metal iron.

Adjectives for Irony
discordant; malignant; secret; terrible; masterly; characteristic; calm; strange; fearless; melancholy; subtle; laughing; delicate enchanting; quaint; unconscious; wanton unpleasing; fine; gentle; trivial; dramatic civilized; somber; delicious; amiable; tragic.

Thesaurus
Atticism, Janus, agile wit, ambiguity, ambiguousness, ambivalence, amphibology, antinomy, 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, 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

Etymology 1
First attested in 1502. From ironia: (perhaps via  ironie:), from  εἰρωνεία: from εἴρων:.

Derived terms

 * dramatic irony
 * irony mark
 * ironic


 * ironical
 * ironist
 * Socratic irony

Related terms

 * ironically

Synonyms

 * ferric
 * ferrous

Noun

 * American Sign Language: Corna@Nose-Corna@@SideChesthigh Corna@RadialHand-Corna@CenterChesthigh
 * Arabic: سخرية,, تهكم , تعارض , تنافر
 * Bosnian:
 * Catalan: ironia
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 反語, 反语, 反話, 反话, ,
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 * Danish: ironi
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 * Irish: íoróin
 * Japanese: 反語,, アイロニー
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 * Bosnian:
 * Catalan: ironia
 * Croatian:
 * Danish: ironi
 * Dutch:, het ironische
 * Finnish:
 * French: ironie du sort
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Adjective

 * Dutch: ijzerachtig, ijzerhoudend
 * French:
 * Greek: σιδερένιος, σιδηρούς


 * Polish:
 * Romanian: feros