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Related / Similar Words: sarcasm, satire, caustic remark

Definition:

incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; "the irony of Ireland''s copying the nation she most hated";

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;

a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs;

Hyponyms: Socratic irony, dramatic irony

Attributes: sarcastic, unsarcastic

Derivational Morphology: satirize, satirise, lampoon

Language Translations:
Bosnian: ironija		Croatian: ironija
Finnish: ironia		German: Ironie
Greek: ειρωνεία		Hungarian: irónia
Polish: ironia		Portuguese: ironia
Romanian: ironie		Russian: ирония
Slovene: ironija

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