Main Entry: iro•ny
Pronunciation: 'I-r&-nE also 'I(-&)r-nE
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -nies
Etymology: Latin ironia, from Greek eirOnia, from eirOn dissembler
1 : a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other's false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning -- called also Socratic irony
2 a : the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning b : a usually humorous or sardonic literary style or form characterized by irony c : an ironic expression or utterance
3 a (1) : incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result (2) : an event or result marked by such incongruity b : incongruity between a situation developed in a drama and the accompanying words or actions that is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play -- called also dramatic irony, tragic irony
synonym see WIT
DVD Burner wrote:So like......
I'm out walking to the store to pick up some wine and things when someone from this Lexus SUV or of sorts, ( I think I was in Hillsboughro or Pacifica or somewhere....something or other………just to place setting) yells to me, "Jesus loves you" as they were waiting at the red light about to turn green when I replied, " yeah, oh heyyyyy, did you vote for Bush?"
Got anything Ironic?
Does'nt have to be political. It was the quickest example that I could come up with.( a nice Burner Irony wold be awesome but not absolute.)
Maybe this should have gone in the "religion and politics" thread or the "atheist" thread.