irony : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: irony	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for irony
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
irony n 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 Synonym(s): sarcasm, irony, satire, caustic remark incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; "the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated" a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Irony \I"rony\, a. [From {Iron}.] 1. Made or consisting of iron; partaking of iron; iron; as, irony* chains; irony particles. [R.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.] 1. Dissimulation; ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist. 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.