An ironic statement.
Contradiction between circumstances and expectations; condition contrary to what might be expected.
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.
Socratic irony: ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist.
The quality of 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.
Of or pertaining to the metal iron.
The food had an irony taste to it.
An imitation.
A comic who does impressions.
An entity that mimics another entity, such as a disease that resembles another disease in its signs and symptoms; see the great imitator.
A mime.
To imitate, especially in order to ridicule.
To take on the appearance of another, for protection or camouflage.
Imitative; characterized by resemblance to other forms; applied to crystals which by twinning resemble simple forms of a higher grade of symmetry.
Pertaining to mimicry; imitative.
Mock, pretended.