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. RAMANA PEMMARAJU:

   Call it Irony or destiny of life, but the fact is I failed to make a living from what 'I loved doing the most' nor did I justify for what I was paid for!

2. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel:

   Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

3. Anna Jane Grossman:

   I worried that I wouldn't be taken seriously. I worried to some extent about the opinions of my journalist colleagues. But the irony is once I made the switch and I started to tell people what I was doing the response was always 'oh my God that's so cool'.

4. Judson Mitcham:

   I don't see how anyone could fail to be troubled and moved by the stockade, with its deadlines, escape tunnels and Providence Spring, that subtext of such clean, well-kept grounds is chaos and human limitation, and I can't walk across the stockade field without feeling challenged and defeated by its awful irony. Even the sky looks different from there.

5. Daniel Garza:

   The irony here is that the Latino left had criticized the conservative movement for years that they were not doing outreach to the Latino community, now that the conservative movement is doing outreach and engaging in the Latino community on a national scale, they're criticizing us for that too. You can't have it both ways.