"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

(8) dramatic, greatest, wonderful

Kolokacji: 3

1. dramatic irony = ironia sceniczna dramatic irony

2. greatest irony = najbardziej wielka ironia greatest irony

And the greatest irony of all was the Mother Creature's children.
The Schulhoff provided the greatest irony, if only by its appearance among the living.
That is why the Japanese television crews are the greatest irony, and a different kind of honor, for the robust man on the seventh floor.
For those of us who knew him, that was the greatest irony of all.
And the greatest irony is that it may well have been worse except for the government's reaction to the events of Sept. 11.
It had to be the greatest irony in the history of mankind, he thought.
'The greatest irony is that I thought he could help me in my research on rape,' she says.
Perhaps the greatest irony about the commission is that it has had more than a bit of trouble preserving its own identity.
This is possibly the greatest irony in the sketches.
"Looking for Langston" provides so little information about the poet that it is possible to miss the film's greatest irony.

3. wonderful irony = cudowna ironia wonderful irony

(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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