English-Italian translations for irony

• ironia
  Ancora una volta quest'Aula non dà prova di senso dell'ironia. No sense of irony again in this Chamber.
  Devo ammettere che l'ironia della situazione mi fa un certo effetto. I have to say that the irony of this is not lost on me.
  Se non siete in grado di capire l'ironia, mi spiace. If you are all unable to understand irony, I am sorry.
• ironie
• paradosso
  Il paradosso è che è la commissione per i trasporti che tira per le lunghe. The irony is that it is the Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism that is dragging its feet.

Definition of irony

• A statement that, when taken in context, may actually mean something different from, or the opposite of, what is written literally; the use of words expressing something other than their literal intention, often in a humorous context.
• Dramatic irony: a theatrical effect in which the meaning of a situation, or some incongruity in the plot, is understood by the audience, but not by the characters in the play
• The state of two usually unrelated entities, parties, actions, etc. being related through a common connection in an uncommon way
• Of or pertaining to the metal iron

Examples

• The food had an irony taste to it.

Related words

• post-irony
• postirony
• self-irony
• irony mark
• irony of fate
• Socratic irony