adj resembling iron taste, hardness, or other physical property.
2. irony ·adj made or consisting of iron; partaking of iron; iron; as, irony chains; irony particles.
3. irony ·noun dissimulation; ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist.
4. irony ·noun a sort of humor, ridicule, or light sarcasm, which adopts a mode of speech the meaning of which is contrary to the literal sense of the words.