meaning of irony
1. Made or consisting of iron; partaking of iron; iron; as, irony chains; irony particles.
2. Resembling iron taste, hardness, or other physical property.
3. Dissimulation; ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist.
4. 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.
5. incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; "the irony of Irelands copying the nation she most
">hated"
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