Word Meanings - IRONY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Made or consisting of iron; partaking of iron; iron; as, irony chains; irony particles. Woodward. 2. Resembling iron taste, hardness, or other physical property.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of IRONY)
- Banter
- Badinage
- chaff
- mockery
- derision
- ridicule
- irony
- jeering
- raillery
- Derision
- Scorn
- contempt
- sarcasm
- contumely
- disrespect
- Ridicule
- banter
- burlesque
- caricature
- satire
- jeer
- sneer
- cachinnation
- Sarcasm
- Gibe
- taunt
- sardonicism
- Satire
- Invective
- lampoon
- pasquinade
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of IRONY)
Related words: (words related to IRONY)
- SARCASM
A keen, reproachful expression; a satirical remark uttered with some degree of scorn or contempt; a taunt; a gibe; a cutting jest. The sarcasms of those critics who imagine our art to be a matter of inspiration. Sir J. Reynolds. Syn. -- Satire; - PASQUINADE
A lampoon or satirical writing. Macaulay. - DISRESPECTABILITY
Want of respectability. Thackeray. - HONORABLE
1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an - RIDICULER
One who ridicules. - CHAFFERY
Traffic; bargaining. Spenser. - ESTEEM
1. To set a value on; to appreciate the worth of; to estimate; to value; to reckon. Then he forsook God, which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. Deut. xxxii. 15. Thou shouldst esteem his censure and authority to be of - HONORABLENESS
1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness. - TAUNTER
One who taunts. - CONTUMELY
Rudeness compounded of haughtiness and contempt; scornful insolence; despiteful treatment; disdain; contemptuousness in act or speech; disgrace. The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely. Shak. Nothing aggravates tyranny so much as contumely. - BADINAGE
Playful raillery; banter. "He . . . indulged himself only in an elegant badinage." Warburton. - LAMPOONER
The writer of a lampoon. "Libelers, lampooners, and pamphleteers." Tatler. - CONTEMPTIBLY
In a contemptible manner. - CONTEMPTUOUSLY
In a contemptuous manner; with scorn or disdain; despitefully. The apostles and most eminent Christians were poor, and used contemptuously. Jer. Taylor. - RESPECTER
One who respects. A respecter of persons, one who regards or judges with partiality. Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts x. - ESTEEMABLE
Worthy of esteem; estimable. "Esteemable qualities." Pope. - CONTEMPTUOUS
Manifecting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful. A proud, contemptious behavior. Hammond. Savage invectiveand contemptuous sarcasm. Macaulay. Rome . . . entertained the most contemptuous opinion of the Jews. - INVECTIVE
Characterized by invection; critical; denunciatory; satirical; abusive; railing. - SARCASMOUS
Sarcastic. "Sarcasmous scandal." Hubidras. - CHAFFINCH
A bird of Europe , having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch. - DISREGARDFULLY
Negligently; heedlessly. - BESCORN
To treat with scorn. "Then was he bescorned." Chaucer. - MISESTEEM
Want of esteem; disrespect. Johnson. - DISESTEEMER
One who disesteems. Boyle. - BY-RESPECT
Private end or view; by-interest. Dryden.