Definition of Irony

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Definition of Irony

Irony

Made or consisting of iron; partaking of iron; iron; as, irony chains; irony particles.

Resembling iron taste, hardness, or other physical property.

Dissimulation; ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist.

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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Irony Quotations

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
Frederick Douglass

My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.
Jack Nicholson

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Robert A. Heinlein

Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.
Charles Baudelaire

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
Anatole France

Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
E. O. Wilson

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.
David Foster Wallace

The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, "then" what do we do?
David Foster Wallace

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
Samuel Butler

The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It's a happy irony if there is such a thing. I'm proud to have known him.
Morgan Freeman

Irony Translations

irony in Dutch is ironie
irony in French is ironie
irony in German is Ironie
irony in Italian is ironia
irony in Norwegian is ironi
irony in Swedish is ironin, ironi

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