(adj.) - An ironic situation is one that is unusual or amusing because something strange happens or the opposite of what is expected happens or is true. It can also be using words that are the opposite of what you really mean, often in a joking way.
- Synonyms: sarcastic, oddly funny, defiant, twisted
- Antonyms: ordinary, expected
- Etymology: 1500 Greek, from eironikos meaning "dissembling, acting ignorant." It originally came from eiron meaning "dissembler," which may have actually come from the word eirein meaning "to speak"
- Morphology: irony - n
- Example: It would be ironic if you were walking down the street and you found a penny, but you did not pick it up; then, when you tried to take the bus, you were missing a penny, and so you had to walk.
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Shelby says,In the Sunday Comics it said"I'd like to make an app that'd take ya back to when theah was no in-tah-net or cell phones." "Ha!Ironically It'd be a best selling app that'd make you billons!"It was cool that our word was in the paper.
ReplyDeleteShelby says,On T.V. I heard ironic three times on Phines and Ferb.It was awsome.
ReplyDeleteShelby says, I was watching T.V. And a guy said its ironic that it might of been there's.It was on haunted collector .
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ReplyDeleteI heard ironic on looney tunes and Daffy made Porky have a kidney transplant,afterwards he got a kidney transplant.
Shelby says,In the Hunger Games Katniss thinks Thats ironic coming from a woman helping to prepare us for slauter.
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