Define irony?

Question

Define irony?

Answer 1

despite the odds the unexpected is true

Answer 2

Guy in a garage shouting and being a pain in the ****,goes back to car afterwards and numberplate reads W654 SHY -that would be irony

Answer 3

Irony is technically when a result is the opposite of what is expected.  It's a tough idea to grasp.

For example, you would never expect a fire station to catch on fire, but when it does, that's irony.

Answer 4

Oxford Dictionary: "the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite."

Online dictionary: "the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning."

My 'definition': "Saying something that means the opposite, happened, is happening without your knowledge or even hipocracy in a humorous way

Answer 5

Literally it's saying the opposite of what you mean.

These days it's common to mean something has happened that is the opposite of what you would want to happen.

Answer 6

its like a free ride when u already paid, its like a black fly in ur chardonnay, its like meetin the man of ur dreams then meetin his beautiful wife

Answer 7

life

Answer 8

10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife.

Alanis Morrisette.

Answer 9

Ah the classic question that is older than time itself. I look forward to see the dismal attemps of these infidels to answer.

Answer 10

Crime stoppers are criminals

Answer 11

oopiste of what is expected

ex: Firehouse burning down

LOL Davion same expample and answer

Answer 12

not having the money 2 buy a lottery ticket and your numbers come up.

a free ride when youve already paid.

buy one get one free but only one is left

Answer 13

Your mother in law going off the cliff in your new Ferrari , oh wait  , sorry  , that's mixed emotions :))

Answer 14

It's meeting the man of your dreams

and then meeting his beautiful wife.

Isn't it ironic?

Answer 15

Alanis Morrisette says "A traffic jam, when you're already late,

A no smoking sign, on your cigarette break"

Those situations are not ironic, they're just annoying.

Ironic would be a traffic jam, when you're a town planner on the way to an important conference about transport strategy. Or perhaps a no smoking sign in a tobacconist shop.

So Alanis Morrisette doesn't actually know the meaning of the word "irony",

Now isn't that ironic!

Answer 16

sarcastic.

Answer 17

George Bush