Definitions for ironies

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ironies i·ro·ny

Spelling: [ahy-ruh-nee, ahy-er-]

IPA: /ˈaɪ rə ni, ˈaɪ ər-/

Ironies is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 136 anagrams from letters in ironies (eiinors).

Definitions for ironies

noun

1. the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning:
2. Literature. a technique of indicating, as through character or plot development, an intention or attitude opposite to that which is actually or ostensibly stated. (especially in contemporary writing) a manner of organizing a work so as to give full expression to contradictory or complementary impulses, attitudes, etc., especially as a means of indicating detachment from a subject, theme, or emotion.
3. Socratic irony.
4. dramatic irony.
5. an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected.
6. the incongruity of this.
7. an objectively sardonic style of speech or writing.
8. an objectively or humorously sardonic utterance, disposition, quality, etc.

Origin of ironies

1495-1505; Latin īrōnīa Greek eirōneía dissimulation, sarcasm, understatement, equivalent to eírōn a dissembler + -eia -y³

Examples for ironies

ironies abound, as a community uses a sports stadium, a symbol of Western culture, to combat that culture.

A sharp and bitter sense of the ironies of life swept across him.

“Running the farm and writing that book woke me up to the ironies of food,” Boycott says.

He is recording-secretary of the petty miseries and ironies of the life about him.

All have failed at grasping its themes, ironies, and allusions.

In fact, the more I reflect back on my class with Myers, the more the clues—and the ironies—pile up.

Our people never formulates; it keeps words for jests and ironies.

It was the first of many Kafka-esque ironies to which I was introduced by this unassuming philosopher-playwright.

Here, too, are the ironies whereof departed life is prodigal.

But she goes forth into the world alone—oh, irony of ironies!