irony

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irony (enc)

Noun	1.	irony - 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 caustic remark, sarcasm, satire humor, wit, witticism, wittiness, humour - a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
	2.	irony - incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; "the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated" incongruity, incongruousness - the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate Socratic irony - admission of your own ignorance and willingness to learn while exposing someone's inconsistencies by close questioning
	3.	irony - a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs antiphrasis - the use of a word in a sense opposite to its normal sense (especially in irony) dramatic irony - (theater) irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play figure of speech, trope, image, figure - language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense indeed - (used as an interjection) an expression of surprise or skepticism or irony etc.; "Wants to marry the butler? Indeed!"

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