"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

(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

1. sad irony = smutna ironia sad irony

2. tragic irony = tragiczna ironia tragic irony

The second of these stories has a sense of tragic irony.
The Penguin goes on to wonder if this is tragic irony or poetic justice.
We didn't understand the tragic irony that our power is also our weakness.
In a tragic irony, the same political leaders who want abortion to be illegal also support policies that make it more necessary.
Campbell's narrative work is characterized by the extensive use of tragic irony.
It was a tragic irony that they found the cause of the disease and its treatment too late to save themselves.
The tragic irony is that some of them will die within a day or so of their arrival.
I had never heard anyone mention tragic irony before.
Yet the recent documentary also reveals a tragic irony.
In an example of tragic irony, Behm was the only one who did not want to enter the war.

3. bittersweet irony = ironia psianki słodkogórz bittersweet irony

(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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