irony

irony has 7 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• a.. Made or consisting of iron; partaking of iron; iron; as, irony chains; irony particles.
• a.. Resembling iron taste, hardness, or other physical property.
• n.. Dissimulation; ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist.
• n.. 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.
• n.. incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; "the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated"
• n.. 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
• n.. a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs