ironist
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- noun
- /ˈaɪərnɪst/
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ironista
- In her essays, she adopts the voice of an ironist, cleverly mocking the absurdities of everyday life.
- a romantic ironist
- ironist reading
Examples
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Mark Twain is often regarded as an ironist, using humor and sarcasm to critique society.
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Salman is a great ironist, and people took it so seriously, which was rather ridiculous.
Blog text (13) -
Not so the ironist critics, who came to dominate academic interpretation in the course of the 1950s and 1960s.
Academic text (1993) -
"The ironist fables without moralizing and has no object but his subject" (Frye 41).
Academic text (1996) -
As a liberal, Rorty accounts these convictions as socially and ethically salutary; as an ironist, he knows that this cannot be proved.
Academic text (1990) -
Eschewing metaphor for the ghastly comedy of the surface while attacking the social and literary elite, both Parra and Emar are levelers and ironists who became major figures despite themselves.
Academic text (2007) -
The speaker's style is unmistakably that of an ironist, revealing truth beneath layers of sarcasm.
Synonyms
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A person, often a writer or comedian, who uses humor and irony to criticize people and ideas
A person who makes fun of others using sarcasm to make people laugh
How Ironic
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- Literature
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ironist comes from irony, which comes from the Greek eironeia meaning 'pretend not to know'. A helpful way to remember it is that an ironist often says the opposite or acts innocent in a clever, mocking way to show a truth or criticize something.