"irony" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

irony sustantivo

irony + verbo

Kolokacji: 5

irony strikes • irony escapes • irony lies • Irony abounds • irony makes

verbo + irony

Kolokacji: 5

irony is lost • use irony • find irony • detect irony • lack irony

adjetivo + irony

Kolokacji: 58

bitter irony • great irony • certain irony • cruel irony • heavy irony • ...

colocaciones frecuentes

Kolokacji: 3

collocations grouped by meanings

Grup znaczeniowych: 16

(1) bitter, grim, dark, sharp, unfortunate

Kolokacji: 5

1. bitter irony = gorzka ironia bitter irony

2. grim irony = ponura ironia grim irony

The play's final moments provide a layer of grim irony that seems eminently suitable to Twain.
It would be a grim and foolish irony to have to kill himself now, after living through the battle of Morina.
It's about the grim ironies of reproductive technology - boutique programming indeed.
With grim irony, it turned out to be Lyme, a disease foreign to urban life.
Such was the grim irony that blocked The Shadow's course.
And from this grew one of the war's grim ironies.
Suddenly very still, the man smiled in grim irony.
If so, what followed has a grim irony - since, save for the panic of this thing, the second thing might never have happened.
Then he repeats the line, with grim irony, presumably to show that the men who dropped the bomb recognized the tragic nature of their mission.
The grim irony isn't lost on either of us.

3. dark irony = gniewna ironia dark irony

4. sharp irony = ostra ironia sharp irony

5. unfortunate irony = ironia nieszczęśnika unfortunate irony

(2) great, heavy, little, small, central, ...

Kolokacji: 6

(3) certain, deliberate, particular

Kolokacji: 3

(4) cruel, subtle, savage, poignant

Kolokacji: 4

(5) ultimate, final

Kolokacji: 2

(6) delicious, sweet, comic, wry, amusing, ...

Kolokacji: 6

(7) sad, tragic, bittersweet

Kolokacji: 3

(8) dramatic, greatest, wonderful

Kolokacji: 3

(9) gentle, mild, far

Kolokacji: 3

(10) historical, real

Kolokacji: 2

(11) apparent, obvious

Kolokacji: 2

(12) terrible, painful, horrible, dreadful, awful

Kolokacji: 5

(13) strange, curious

Kolokacji: 2

(14) considerable, deep, cosmic, rich, interesting

Kolokacji: 5

(15) exquisite, fine, nice, delicate

Kolokacji: 4

(16) unconscious, unintended, unintentional

Kolokacji: 3

preposición + irony

Kolokacji: 9

of irony • with irony • without irony • in irony • for irony • ...

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