ironies
- 1Plural of irony.
History is rich with ironies that only become clear in hindsight.
The novel layers several ironies one on top of another until the ending lands hard.
Note
The plural appears only where irony becomes countable: each ironic statement, each twist in which circumstances defy expectation, each moment of dramatic irony the audience grasps before the characters do. The quality itself stays singular, so a writer uses irony while a plot piles up ironies. One stray plural belongs to a dated children's word, since ironies were also metallic marbles.
ironies is a form of irony
irony, noun: The quality of a statement that, in context, means something different from, or the opposite of, its literal sense; the use of words to express something other than their literal intent, often humorously. Full entry
- Forms
- ironyironies plural
- Spelling
- irony → ironies: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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