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"
incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs
"the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated"
a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs
"The movie's biggest irony was that the hero survived only because of a mistake he made while trying to save his own life."
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.
"When the fire station burned down, someone joked about how ironic it was that the place put out fires couldn't stop its own roof from catching."
Of or pertaining to the metal iron.
"The rusty chains holding up the bridge were finally cut by a team of workers armed with heavy tools made of iron."