| 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!" |
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