Irony
Irony İngilizce anlamı ve tanımı
Irony anlamları
- (a.) Resembling iron taste, hardness, or other physical property.
- (noun) Dissimulation; ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist.
- (noun) 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.
- (a.) Made or consisting of iron; partaking of iron; iron; as, irony chains; irony particles.
Irony tanım:
Kelime: iro·ny
Söyleniş: 'I-r&-nE also 'I(-&)r-nE
İşlev: noun
Türleri: plural -nies
Kökeni: Latin ironia, from Greek eirOnia, from eirOn dissembler
1 : a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other's false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning -- called also Socratic irony
2 a : the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning b : a usually humorous or sardonic literary style or form characterized by irony c : an ironic expression or utterance
3 a (1) : incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result (2) : an event or result marked by such incongruity b : incongruity between a situation developed in a drama and the accompanying words or actions that is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play -- called also dramatic irony, tragic irony
synonym see WIT