- Look up irony,
antiphrastic,
antiphrastical, ironic, or
ironical in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Irony is a
literary or
rhetorical device, in which...
- (sigē), 'silence'; in
classical Antiquity, the name was ****umed to be
antiphrastic, i.e.
indicating a
characteristic of the
place contrary to reality, since...
- "Right now as we speak, I'm
going to school"). It is also
common to use
antiphrastic formulas which are
alien to Italian, by
means of the
particle già (Sard...
- m'apo
corcau ("I did go to bed"). Use of the same
particle to
express antiphrastic formulas: Jai ses totu istudiatu, tue! ("You're so well educated!", that...
- an
Italian academy. Each
member of the
Intronati adopted a humorous,
antiphrastic pseudonym, Laura's
being “la Sgraziata” or “the Graceless,” a characteristic...
