irony

Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary Jump to: navigation, search WOTD - 28 February 2008 Wikipedia has an article on: Irony An example of situational irony

Contents

English

Etymology 1

First attested in 1502. From Latin īrōnīa (perhaps via Middle French ironie), from Ancient Greek εἰρωνεία (eirōneia, “irony, pretext”) from εἴρων (eirōn, “one who feigns ignorance”).

Pronunciation

Noun

irony (usually uncountable; plural ironies)

  1. A statement that, when taken in context, may actually mean something different from, or the opposite of what is written literally; the use of words expressing something other than their literal intention, notably as a form of humor.
  2. (colloquial) The quality or state of an event being both coincidental and contradictory in a humorous or poignant and extremely improbable way.
  3. Dramatic irony: a theatrical effect in which the meaning of a situation, or some incongruity in the plot, is understood by the audience, but not by the characters in the play.
  4. Ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist; Socratic irony.
Derived terms
terms derived from irony
Related terms
Translations
statement that may mean the opposite of what is written literally
  • Greek: ειρωνεία el(el) (eironeía) f.
  • Hungarian: irónia hu(hu)
  • Interlingua: ironia ia(ia)
  • Irish: íoróin ga(ga) f.
  • Japanese: 反語 ja(ja) (はんご, hango), 諷刺 ja(ja) (ふうし, fūshi) (satire, sarcasm), アイロニー ja(ja) (aironī)
  • Norwegian: ironi no(no) m.
  • Polish: ironia pl(pl) f.
  • Portuguese: ironia pt(pt) f.
  • Romanian: ironie ro(ro) f.
  • Russian: ирония ru(ru) (irónija) f.
  • Slovene: ironija sl(sl) f.
  • Spanish: ironía es(es) f.
  • Swedish: ironi sv(sv) c.
  • Turkish: tezat tr(tr), ironi tr(tr)
quality or state of an event being both coincidental and contradictory
  • Norwegian: skjebnens ironi no(no)
  • Polish: ironia pl(pl) f.
  • Romanian: ironie ro(ro) f.
  • Russian: ирония ru(ru) (irónija) f.
  • Slovene: ironija sl(sl) f.
  • Spanish: ironía es(es) f.
  • Swedish: ironi sv(sv) c.
  • Turkish: ironi tr(tr)
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.
Translations to be checked
  • Aragonese: ironía an(an) f.
  • Basque: ironia eu(eu)
  • Breton: mousfen br(br)
  • Catalan: ironia ca(ca) f.
  • Esperanto: ironio eo(eo)
  • Estonian: iroonia et(et)
  • Hebrew: אירוניה he(he) (ironiya) f.

Etymology 2

From iron.

Pronunciation

Adjective

irony (comparative more irony, superlative most irony)

  1. Of or pertaining to the metal iron.
    The food had an irony taste to it.
Synonyms
Translations
of or pertaining to iron
  • Dutch: ijzerachtig, ijzerhoudend
  • French: ferreux fr(fr)
  • Greek: σιδερένιος el(el) (siderénios) m., σιδηρούς el(el) (sidiroús) m.
  • Polish: żelazny pl(pl) m.

 

The above information uses material from Wiktionary and is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Some facts may not have been fully verified for accuracy. [Disclaimers]
This page was last archived by our server on Wed Sep 8 23:41:05 2010. [ refresh local cache ]
Displaying this page or its contents does not use any Wikimedia Foundation's resources.
The owners of this site proudly support the Wikimedia Foundation.


Oh, the irony: Gizmodo editor loses iPhone - Today's iPhone (blog)
todaysiphone.com
Oh, the irony: Gizmodo editor loses iPhone - Today's iPhone (blog)
Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:17:41 GMT+00:00
: Gizmodo editor loses iPhone Today's iPhone (blog) The irony of this is juicy, though the details aren't very exciting: A lady asked for a chair, and Lam obliged. This was the same lady that wound up turning ... Irony : Gizmodo's Brian Lam leaves phone in restaurant; grateful an honest ... MacDailyNews (blog) Gizmodo Editor Forgets iPhone At Restaurant, Says Its Karma Cult of Mac (blog) Gizmodo editor Brian Lam loses his iPhone 4 in a restaurant Geek.com tuaw.com (blog)
Google News Search: irony,
Thu Sep 9 09:00:10 2010
irony jpg
shhac.info
irony jpg
432px x 540px | 34.90kB

[source page]



Yahoo Images Search: irony,
Thu Sep 9 09:00:10 2010
If Hilarity and Irony Had a Love Child: Holy Video Games Batman!
hollysblogunimaginativeurl.blogspot.com
If Hilarity and Irony Had a Love Child: Holy Video Games Batman!

hfreeburg

ue, 07 Sep 2010 16:35:00 GM

If Hilarity and . Irony. Had a Love Child. Tuesday, September 7, 2010. Holy Video Games Batman! If you look really hard you can see that his virginity is there. Like, right behind the Duck Hunt guns. Posted by hfreeburg at 11:35 AM ...

Google Blogs Search: irony,
Thu Sep 9 09:00:10 2010