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)

• Honor
• regard
• esteem
• venerate
• respect
• applaud
• salute

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.
• 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
• CHAFFERY
  Traffic; bargaining. Spenser.
• 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.
• SNEER
  1. To show contempt by turning up the nose, or by a particular facial expression. 2. To inssinuate contempt by a covert expression; to speak derisively. I could be content to be a little sneared at. Pope. 3. To show mirth awkwardly. Tatler. Syn.
• 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.