Synonyms for irony
ˈaɪ rə ni, ˈaɪ ər-irony

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1. irony2

   Synonyms:
   ferric, ferrous

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1. irony

   Banter is the touching upon some fault, weakness, or fancied secret of another in a way half to pique and half to please; badinage is delicate, refined banter. Raillery has more sharpness, but is usually good-humored and well meant. Irony, the saying one thing that the reverse may be understood, may be either mild or bitter. All the other words have a hostile intent. Ridicule makes a person or thing the subject of contemptuous merriment; derision seeks to make the object derided seem utterly despicable — to laugh it to scorn. Chaff is the coarse witticism of the streets, perhaps merry, oftener malicious; jeering is loud, rude ridicule, as of a hostile crowd or mob. Mockery is more studied, and may include mimicry and personal violence, as well as scornful speech. A satire is a formal composition; a sarcasm may be an impromptu sentence. The satire shows up follies to keep people from them; the sarcasm hits them because they are foolish, without inquiring whether it will do good or harm; the satire is plainly uttered; the sarcasm is covert.

   Synonyms:
   badinage, banter, chaff, derision, jeering, mockery, raillery, ridicule, sarcasm, satire

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1. irony

   Synonyms:
   satire, banter, quiz, rally, taunt, sarcasm, raillery, ridicule

   Antonyms:
   compliment, seriousness

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1. sarcasm, irony, satire, caustic remarknoun

   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

   Synonyms:
   sarcasm, caustic remark, satire

2. ironynoun

   incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs

   "the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated"

   Synonyms:
   sarcasm, caustic remark, satire

3. ironynoun

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

   Synonyms:
   sarcasm, caustic remark, satire

Matched Categories

1. • Incongruity
   • Trope

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1. plot twist

   something that happens in a story that you did not expect, it is set up with small hints throughout a story

   he could not believe the irony he just witnessed

   Submitted by rinat on February 7, 2016  

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1. ironynoun

   Synonyms:
   ridicule, raillery, banter, mockery, ASTEISM, saying one thing and meaning the opposite

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1. List of paraphrases for "irony":

   satire, paradox, mockery

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1. W. Somerset Maugham:

   If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will Lose its freedom and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

2. Gretchen Whitmer:

   The irony is, I think, I got the first national acclaim because I was mentioned unfavorably by the current occupant of the White House, i didn't go asking to be thrown into the national limelight.

3. Kate Hardiman:

   I think that the majority of Notre Dame students are committed to free speech and open dialogue on campus and that these protests are being driven by a very vocal minority who seek to disrupt the event, this is part of a larger trend of students who want to shut down ideas that Notre Dame students find disagreeable. The irony is that ‘ tolerance ’ is the watchword on campuses these days, yet only certain ideas are apparently worthy of being tolerated.

4. Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco:

   Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

5. Roger Wicker:

   The irony is that the Supreme Court is at the very time hearing cases about this sort of affirmative racial discrimination while adding someone who is the beneficiary of this sort of quota.