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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to irony:   (168 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, humor, humour, image, incongruity, incongruousness, trope, wit, witticism, wittiness

Synonyms:
caustic remark, sarcasm, satire

Also try:
— Adjectives for irony: bitter, dramatic, tragic, certain, final, romantic, cruel, strange, gentle, ultimate, supreme, more...

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