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Meaning of irony

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  irony
      n 1: witty language used to convey insults or scorn; "he used
           sarcasm to upset his opponent"; "irony is wasted on the
           stupid"; "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do
           generally discover everybody's face but their own"--
           Jonathan Swift [syn: {sarcasm}, {irony}, {satire}, {caustic
           remark}]
      2: incongruity between what might be expected and what actually
         occurs; "the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most
         hated"
      3: a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected
         and what occurs

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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