UPROARIOUS - 8 definitions found
uproarious adj 1: uncontrollably noisy [syn: rackety, rip-roaring, uproarious] 2: marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter; "hilarious broad comedy"; "a screaming farce"; "uproarious stories" [syn: hilarious, screaming(a), uproarious] Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) uproarious adjective Date: 1800 1. marked by uproar 2. very noisy and full 3. extremely funny <an uproarious comedy> • uproariously adverb • uproariousness noun Oxford English Reference Dictionary
English Explanatory Dictionary uproarious ʌpˈrɔ:rɪəs adj. 1 very noisy. 2 provoking loud laughter. øøuproariously adv. uproariousness n. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Uproarious \Up*roar"i*ous\, a. Making, or accompanied by, uproar, or noise and tumult; as, uproarious merriment. -- Up*roar"i*ous*ly, adv. -- Up*roar"i*ous*ness, n. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms uproarious a. ( English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) uproarious ʌpˈrɔ:rɪəs adj. 1 clamorous, noisy, deafening, tumultuous, turbulent, tempestuous, excited, frenzied, rowdy, riotous, disorderly, wild: We had an uproarious party on New Year's Eve. 2 hilarious, hysterical, (screamingly) funny, side-splitting, Colloq too funny for words, killing: Leslie told his uproarious story about Colonel Cholmondley and the tiger. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 58 Moby Thesaurus words for "uproarious": anarchic, angry, blaring, blatant, blatting, blustering, blusterous, blustery, boisterous, brassy, brawling, brazen, chaotic, clamant, clamorous, clamoursome, clanging, clangorous, clattery, deafening, disorderly, excited, frantic, frenzied, furious, hellish, hilarious, hysterical, infuriate, insensate, killing, mad, mafficking, mindless, noiseful, noisy, obstreperous, orgasmic, orgastic, pandemoniac, rackety, raging, ravening, raving, riotous, rip-roaring, rowdy, sonorous, storming, stormy, strepitant, strepitous, tempestuous, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent, vociferous, wild |
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