Is this considered irony?

Question

if one is acting younger than they all ready are, but is 6'5" tall with gray hair?

okay an 18 year old acts like he is 13 and is 6'5" with gray hair. ironic?

Answer 1

first of all, he is 18 and acts like he is 13, second he is 6'5" and had gray hair, so then in fact looks older than he is acting.

i would say this is extremely and highly ironic

Answer 2

Depends how you define 'acting younger than they are'. I'm 60 but still feel the same as I did 25 -35 years ago. Your use of the word irony is interesting. Irony is cruel humour so in the situation you describe I wouldn't see it as ironic. Now what would be irony is where the person was a certain age, say 25, and pretended to be 18 to get into a club for younger people then found that he couldn't buy an alcoholic drink because they didn't serve under 21's.

Answer 3

Irony is when the outcome is opposite of what is expected, or what should be. So in this case, while you would expect that person to be old, them acting young isn't ironic. What I would consider ironic is if we had another person, who was short and young, act older than the 6'5" person.

I would say it's ironic because we'd expect the older looking person to act older than the younger looking one.

I hope you can understand what I'm trying to say.

Answer 4

If he was 13 and had grey hair and 6"5 and acted like he was 18 i would say that would be ironic

Answer 5

Maybe if it was worded differently. For example, isn't it ironic that the one with the gray hair is the one acting like a baby?

Answer 6

Irony comes from a reversal of expectations or a mismatch. People acting younger than their age isn't ironic.

If you were at a party with this big, gray-haired person acting younger than his or her age, and instead approached a dignified and calm twentysomething and scolded him or her to "act your age," that would be ironic.

Answer 7

Definitely.
MOST OF THE ANSWERS SO FAR GIVEN ARE WRONG.

YOUR EXAMPLE IS IRONY
IT IS IT IS IT IS IT IS

Irony can be the opposite of what is expected or considered appropriate.
In your example, the person APPEARS old yet ACTS young.

For instance my dictionary offers this example of irony:
“It’s ironic that the firehouse burned.”

This example is similar to your own.

Source: Webster’s New World Dictionary, Second College Edition, page 745

Answer 8

no that is not irony. Irony is when something turns out diferent then what you expect. when romeo and juliet died it was irony b/c it is not what you expected. a better def. would be an Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs
if you want an example of every thing that irony is not you could listen to the song 'ironic'

Answer 9

No, irony would be your boyfriend telling you to get a small tape recorder to tape your ex's violent phone calls, and then later on you use the same tape recorder to record the boyfriend's act of cheating. That would be ironic.

Answer 10

Why would that be ironic?? Irony would be someone who says, " I hate people, but I love gatherings" were you in a miss teen beauty pageant recently? South Carolina?