имя существительное ирония Например: touch of irony — ироничный оттенок The irony of it is that... — Парадокс / ирония в том, что... The tragic irony is that the drug was supposed to save lives. — Трагический парадокс заключается в том, что этот препарат должен был спасать жизни.
noun (plural -nies) Etymology: Latin ironia, from Greek eirōnia, from eirōn dissembler 1. a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other's false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning — called also Socratic irony 2. a. the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning b. a usually humorous or sardonic literary style or form characterized by irony c. an ironic expression or utterance 3. a. (1) incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result (2) an event or result marked by such incongruity b. incongruity between a situation developed in a drama and the accompanying words or actions that is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play — called also dramatic irony, tragic irony Synonyms: see wit