Words and phrases that have a meaning related to irony: (163 results)
Contains:
antiphrasis
Often used in the same context:
absurdity, sarcasm, paradox, hypocrisy, poignancy, incongruity, poetic justice, subtext, facetiousness, disingenuousness, silliness, juxtaposition, inanity, schadenfreude, fatuousness, levity, pathos, idiocy, nuance, humor, condescension, symbolism, pointlessness, ugliness, subtlety, pretension, strangeness, dichotomy, hyperbole, contradiction, ridiculousness, conceit, cynicism, smugness, boneheadedness, peculiarity, ingenuousness, lunacy, pomposity, profundity, naivete, foolishness, pretentiousness, coincidence, dubiousness, banality, grandiloquence, wryness, exaggeration, ambiguity, crassness, bombast, oddity, stupidity, gallows humor, cluelessness, perversity, folly, artificiality, parody, satire, incredulousness, political incorrectness, pompousness, joke, illogic, subversiveness, weirdness, unreality, implication, travesty, revisionism, sordidness, chutzpah, awfulness, bitterness, non sequitur, wistfulness, whimsy, knowingness, simile, paradoxes, insincerity, misanthropy, shamelessness, nastiness, salaciousness, ghastliness, horribleness, inelegance, illogicality, triteness, cravenness, artifice, quirkiness, hubris, affectation, prickliness, officiousness, sentimentality, gaucherie, overtones, ironies, disappointment, deception, disservice, humiliation, mystery, frisson, humour, misgiving, mockery, misconception, misfortune, quandary, reproach, snub, thrill, disillusion, amused, baxter, bemused, cecil, clearsighted, cliff, condescending, deprecatory, derisive, discourse, dorothy, duncan, fac, fran, franz, grace, grief, homer, humoured, indulgent
More specific:
dramatic irony, socratic irony
Appears in the definition of:
antiphrasis, detected, dramatic irony, indeed, ironist, marianne craig moore, marianne moore, measured, moore, permeative, ridiculer, satirist
More general:
figure, figure of speech, image, incongruousness, trope, wit, witticism, wittiness
Synonyms:
Also try:caustic remark
— Adjectives for irony: bitter, dramatic, tragic, certain, final, romantic, cruel, strange, gentle, ultimate, supreme, more...
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