Library / English Dictionary

IRONIST

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm

Synonyms:

ironist; ridiculer; satirist

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("ironist" is a kind of...):

humorist; humourist (someone who acts speaks or writes in an amusing way)

Instance hyponyms:

Decimus Junius Juvenalis; Juvenal (Roman satirist who denounced the vice and folly of Roman society during the reign of the emperor Domitian (60-140))

Francois Rabelais; Rabelais (author of satirical attacks on medieval scholasticism (1494-1553))

Dean Swift; Jonathan Swift; Swift (an English satirist born in Ireland (1667-1745))

Derivation:

irony (witty language used to convey insults or scorn)

Credits