Result from Foreign Dictionaries (3 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Irony \I"ron*y\, n. [L. ironia, Gr. ? dissimulation, fr. ? a
dissembler in speech, fr. ? to speak; perh. akin to E. word:
cf. F. ironie.]
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1. Dissimulation; ignorance feigned for the purpose of
confounding or provoking an antagonist.
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2. 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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Irony \I"ron*y\, a. [From {Iron}.]
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1. Made or consisting of iron; partaking of iron; iron; as,
irony chains; irony particles; -- In this sense {iron} is
the more common term. [R.] --Woodward.
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2. Resembling iron in taste, hardness, or other physical
property.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
irony
n 1: 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"--
Jonathan Swift [syn: {sarcasm}, {irony}, {satire}, {caustic
remark}]
2: incongruity between what might be expected and what actually
occurs; "the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most
hated"
3: a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected
and what occurs
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