kabalighoan : Binisaya - Cebuano to English Dictionary and Thesaurus.

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Word:

Word - rootword - affixes
kabalighoan - baligho - ka-~-an~
ka.ba.lig.hu.an. - 5 syllables

ka- = kabaligho
-an = kabalighoan
kabalighoan

kabalighoan :	irony (n.)
baligho [ba.lig.hû.] :	strange (adj.); unlooked-for (adj.); irony (n.)

Derivatives of baligho

Glosses:

irony
n. (communication)	1. caustic remark, irony, sarcasm, satire	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"
	~ humor, wit, witticism, wittiness, humour	a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter.
n. (attribute)	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.
n. (communication)	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.
	~ pretty	(used ironically) unexpectedly bad.; "a pretty mess"; "a pretty kettle of fish"
	~ deserving, worth	worthy of being treated in a particular way.; "an idea worth considering"; "the deserving poor"
	~ indeed	(used as an interjection) an expression of surprise or skepticism or irony etc..; "Wants to marry the butler? Indeed!"
unlooked-for
adj.	1. out of the blue, unanticipated, unforeseen, unlooked-for	not anticipated.; "unanticipated and disconcerting lines of development"; "unforeseen circumstances"; "a virtue unlooked-for in people so full of energy"; "like a bolt out of the blue"
	~ unexpected	not expected or anticipated.; "unexpected guests"; "unexpected news"
irony