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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Irony \I"ron*y\, 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 From WordNet r 1.6 [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" [syn: {sarcasm}, {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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