irony

Noun
  1. Witty language used to convey insults or scorn (synset 106790003)
    "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"
    tells us about:
    is a type of: humor, humour, wit, witticism, wittiness - a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
    same as: caustic remark, sarcasm, satire
  2. Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs (synset 104722351)
    "the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated"
    is a type of: incongruity, incongruousness - the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate
    subtypes: socratic irony - admission of your own ignorance and willingness to learn while exposing someone's inconsistencies by close questioning
  3. A trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs (synset 107120931)
    domain member usage:
    • pretty - (used ironically) unexpectedly bad
    • deserving, worth - (often used ironically) worthy of being treated in a particular way
    • indeed - (used as an interjection) an expression of surprise or skepticism or irony etc.
    is a type of: figure, figure of speech, image, trope - language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
    subtypes: dramatic irony - (theater) irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play
    has: antiphrasis - the use of a word in a sense opposite to its normal sense (especially in irony)

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