| Main Entry: | irony |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sarcasm |
Synonyms: |
banter, burlesque, contempt, contrariness, criticism, derision, humor, incongruity, jibe, mockery, mordancy, paradox, quip, raillery, repartee, reproach, ridicule, sardonicism, satire, taunt, twist, wit |
Antonyms: |
consideration, deference |
| Main Entry: | figure of speech |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | turn of expression |
Synonyms: |
adumbration, allegory, alliteration, allusion, analogue, analogy, anaphora, anticlimax, antistrophe, antithesis, aposiopesis, apostrophe, asyndeton, bathos, communication that is not meant literally; stylistic device, comparison, conceit, device, echoism, ellipsis, euphemism, euphuism, exaggeration, expression, flourish, flower, hyperbole, image, imagery, irony, litotes, malapropism, manner of speaking, metaphor, metonymy, onomatopoeia, ornament, oxymoron, parable, paradox, parallel, personification, proteron, rhetoric, sarcasm, satire, simile, synecdoche, trope, tropology, turn of phrase, understatement, way of speaking |
| Main Entry: | parody |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imitation, spoof |
Synonyms: |
apology, burlesque, caricature, cartoon, copy, derision, farce, irony, jest, joke, lampoon, mime, mimicry, misrepresentation, mock-heroic, mockery, pastiche, play-on, raillery, rib, ridicule, roast, satire, send-up, skit, takeoff, travesty |
Antonyms: |
reality, truth |
| Main Entry: | repartee |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pleasant conversation |
Synonyms: |
answer, badinage, banter, bon mot, comeback, humor, irony, persiflage, pleasantry, quip, raillery, rejoinder, reply, response, retort, riposte, sally, sarcasm, satire, wit, witticism, wittiness, wordplay |
Antonyms: |
argument, disagreement, fight |
| Main Entry: | ridicule |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | contemptuous laughter at someone or something |
Synonyms: |
badinage, banter, buffoonery, burlesque, caricature, chaff, comeback, contempt, derision, dig*, disdain, disparagement, farce, foolery, gibe, irony, jab, jeer, laughter, leer, mockery, mordancy, needling, parody, parting shot, persiflage, put-on, putdown, raillery, rally, razz, rib, roast, sarcasm, sardonicism, satire, scorn, slam*, sneer*, swipe, taunt, taunting, travesty |
Antonyms: |
flattery, praise |
| Main Entry: | sarcasm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mocking remark |
Synonyms: |
acrimony, aspersion, banter, bitterness, burlesque, causticness, censure, comeback, contempt, corrosiveness, criticism, cut*, cynicism, derision, dig*, disparagement, flouting, invective, irony, lampooning, mockery, mordancy, put-down, raillery, rancor, ridicule, satire, scoffing, scorn, sharpness, sneering, superciliousness, wisecrack |
| Main Entry: | satire |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ridicule intended to expose truth |
Synonyms: |
banter, burlesque, caricature, causticity, chaffing, irony, lampoon, lampoonery, mockery, parody, pasquinade, persiflage, play-on, put-on, raillery, sarcasm, send-up, skit, spoof, squib, takeoff, travesty, wit, witticism |
| Main Entry: | understatement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | restrained statement |
Synonyms: |
belittlement, distortion, irony, litotes, oversimplification, sarcasm, underestimation |
Antonyms: |
exaggeration, hyperbole, overstatement |
| Main Entry: | raillery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bantering |
Synonyms: |
asteism, badinage, banter, chaffing, derision, fun, irony, jesting, joking, kidding, lampoonery, mockery, parody, persiflage, play, pleasantry, razzing, ridicule, roasting, satire, sport, teasing |
| Main Entry: | sneering |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | derision |
Synonyms: |
cynicism, irony, sarcasm |