irony 音标拼音: ['ɑɪrəni]
n . 反讽,讽剌,讽剌之事
反讽,讽剌,讽剌之事
irony n 1 :
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 : {
sarcasm }, {
irony }, {
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 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 .]
[
1913 Webster ]
1 .
Dissimulation ;
ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist .
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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 .
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1913 Webster ]
Irony \
I "
ron *
y \,
a . [
From {
Iron }.]
[
1913 Webster ]
1 .
Made or consisting of iron ;
partaking of iron ;
iron ;
as ,
irony chains ;
irony particles ; --
In this sense {
iron }
is the more common term . [
R .] --
Woodward .
[
1913 Webster PJC ]
2 .
Resembling iron in taste ,
hardness ,
or other physical property .
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76 Moby Thesaurus words for "
irony ":
Atticism ,
Janus ,
agile wit ,
ambiguity ,
ambiguousness ,
ambivalence ,
amphibology ,
antinomy ,
biformity ,
bifurcation ,
black humor ,
burlesque ,
caricature ,
causticity ,
comedy ,
complexity of meaning ,
conjugation ,
cynicism ,
dichotomy ,
double entendre ,
double meaning ,
double reference ,
doubleness ,
doublethink ,
doubling ,
dry wit ,
dualism ,
duality ,
duplexity ,
duplication ,
duplicity ,
equivocacy ,
equivocality ,
equivocalness ,
equivocation ,
esprit ,
farce ,
halving ,
humor ,
innuendo ,
invective ,
lampoon ,
levels of meaning ,
multivocality ,
nimble wit ,
oxymoron ,
pairing ,
paradox ,
parody ,
paronomasia ,
pleasantry ,
polarity ,
polysemousness ,
polysemy ,
pretty wit ,
punning ,
quick wit ,
ready wit ,
richness of meaning ,
salt ,
sarcasm ,
satire ,
satiric wit ,
savor of wit ,
self -
contradiction ,
slapstick ,
slapstick humor ,
squib ,
subtle wit ,
travesty ,
twinning ,
two -
facedness ,
twoness ,
uncertainty ,
visual humor ,
wit IRONY ,
rhetoric .
A term derived from the Greek ,
which signifies dissimulation .
It is a refined species of ridicule ,
which ,
under the mask of honest simplicity or ignorance ,
exposes the faults and errors of others ,
by seeming to adopt or defend them .
2 .
In libels ,
irony may convey imputations more effectually than direct assertion ,
and render the publication libelous .
Hob .
215 ;
Hawk .
B .
1 ,
c .
73 ,
s .
4 ;
3 Chit .
Cr .
Law ,
869 ,
Bac .
Ab .
Libel ,
A 3 .
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