IRONY

a. n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Made or consisting of iron; partaking of iron; iron; as, irony chains; irony particles. [R.] Woodward.

2.
a.

Resembling iron taste, hardness, or other physical property.

3.
n.

Dissimulation; ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist.

4.
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.


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