What does "irony" mean?
Irony: Resembling iron taste, hardness, or other physical property.
Additional senses
- 2.Dissimulation; ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist.
- 3.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.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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