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uproarious

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Word definitions for uproarious in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1791, from uproar + -ous . Related: Uproariously .

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Uproarious \Up*roar"i*ous\, a. Making, or accompanied by, uproar, or noise and tumult; as, uproarious merriment. [1913 Webster] -- Up*roar"i*ous*ly , adv. -- Up*roar"i*ous*ness , n.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Characterized by loud, confused noise, or by noisy and uncontrollable laughter.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ The course ended with a magnificent banquet and uproarious party, despite the prospect of a 6.30 a.m. departure next day.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. uncontrollably noisy [syn: rackety , rip-roaring ] marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter; "hilarious broad comedy"; "a screaming farce"; "uproarious stories" [syn: hilarious , screaming(a) ]

Usage examples of uproarious.

Only the vessels of the king and the nomarch and the barge of Senci were not involved in the uproarious revel that followed.

Spotmaster, and he built and blended and sweetened the hell out of that laugh track till even I chuckled at moronic material Bill Tidy had bastardized to a level that only the Jukes and Kallikaks could have found uproarious.

The hangers-on seemed dazzled by her cleverness, her every apercu received with uproarious merriment.

So much of the time of the Beachcomber is spent sweeping with hopeful eyes the breadths of the empty sea, policing the uproarious beaches, overhauling the hordes of roguish reefs, and the medley concealed in cosy caves by waves that storm at the bare mention of the rights of private property, that he cannot avoid casual acquaintance with the scores of animated things which ceaselessly woo him from the pursuit of his calling.

She had sensed that the man reveled in the fear and awe he inspired by the sight of him riding the animal, and fulfilling her image of a crude bully, he had chortled in uproarious mirth at the servants who scurried out of his path.

The joking got so uproarious in the wide-open hospitality suite the La Bouche Laboratories had reserved that kindhearted Dr.

If the Quarn found humanity's sexual mores amusing, they found those of the Rish uproarious, and the matriarchs were not amused in return.

Quilp, in his uproarious hospitality, seated himself upon an empty beer-barrel, vaunted the place as the most beautiful and comfortable in the three kingdoms, and elevating his glass, drank to their next merry-meeting in that jovial spot.

He took out one of the outrigger canoes, paddled around thelagoon, visited the pigs and chickens on the farthest islet, andmanaged to overturn the outrigger in the current between islands,to the uproarious delight of the Polynesian staff of the hotel, whoapparently had nothing better to do than watch him from the beach.

It was agreed I could not be permitted to stand there indecently exposed, but the crowd beyond the gate grew so uproarious, especially when I turned to retrieve my watch (whose neck-chain too had caught on the Turnstile and been snapped), that the gatekeepers abandoned self-control and scuffled with each other.

All the myriad little mysteries that had nagged at him, from the punch line to a joke others had found uproarious and he had not quite heard, to the nature of Ultimate Reality.