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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hilarious
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Our attempts at dancing were hilarious - we all kept tripping over each other.
▪ the hilarious BBC comedy series 'Absolutely Fabulous'
▪ You should read this book - it's hilarious.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And Tim I thought the sausage eaters stuff was hilarious.
▪ But she can be forgiven because this, too, is hilarious.
▪ The Aboriginal rebellion is as tragic as life aboard the Sincerity is hilarious.
▪ There are some hilarious and touching stories along the way.
▪ They seemed to think this was hilarious.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hilarious

Hilarious \Hi*la"ri*ous\, a. [L. hilaris, hilarus, Gr. ?; cf. ? gracious, kindly.] Mirthful; noisy; merry.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hilarious

1823, "cheerful," from Latin hilaris "cheerful, of good cheer" (see hilarity) + -ous. Meaning "boisterously joyful" is from 1830s. Related: Hilariously.

Wiktionary
hilarious

a. Very funny; causing great merriment and laughter.

WordNet
hilarious

adj. marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter; "hilarious broad comedy"; "a screaming farce"; "uproarious stories" [syn: screaming(a), uproarious]

Wikipedia
Hilarious
  1. Redirect Humour
Hilarious (film)

Hilarious is a 2010 concert film by stand-up comedian Louis C.K., as well as his third album, containing the audio of the concert recorded at The Pabst Theater in Milwaukee. The film was first screened at the Sundance Film Festival on January 26, 2010, had a one-day theater screening in select cities on September 8, 2010, and had its world premiere on the television network Epix on September 18, 2010. The film received two nominations at the 2011 Primetime Emmy Awards. The film was later shown on Comedy Central, and the album was released on January 11, 2011 by Comedy Central Records. The album was awarded Best Comedy Album at the 54th Grammy Awards on February 12, 2012.

Usage examples of "hilarious".

Buffo the Great, the terrible Buffo, hilarious, appalling, devastating Buffo with his round, white face and the inch-wide rings of rouge round his eyes, and his four-cornered mouth, like a bow tie, and, mockery of mockeries, under his roguishly cocked, white, conical cap, he wears a wig that does not simulate hair.

Rob Carson of Columbia, Missouri, created the hilarious House Bank and House Post Office commercial parodies, and Dick Rich, a friend in New York, wrote the Feminazi Trading Card bit.

During the last half-dozen curtain-calls I had told Martina my problem and, in a moment of hilarious intimacy, she helped gimmick the cummerbund before unleashing me into the first bipedal can we could find.

After that, on I Love Lucy, Ricky pays Ethel twenty dollars for a quick hand job in the broom closet, but things get really hilarious when Fred is caught placing a kosher knockwurst in Lucys asshole.

It was the first of September when Willie and Keefer staggered into the BOQ at four in the morning, full of hog meat and whisky which they had consumed at a hilarious luau arranged by the nurses.

Many of his guests had met the cool and proper Miss Plimsoll in passing, and they found hilarious the image of Matthew Griswald, Iron Man of Letters, reduced in his waning years to grinding away on the razor-sharp pelvis of Miss Plimsoll.

They were belated revellers, and had been carelessly strolling under the pinky cloudlets bedward, after a prolonged carousal with the sons and daughters of hilarious nations, until the apparition of Virgin Luck on the wing shocked all prospect of a dead fight with the tables that day.

That name, and the hilarious story behind it, had gone a long way toward taking Nectarine Savoy to the top of the modeling profession during the late seventies and early eighties.

All the panellists agreed that, whatever it was, the idea of some guy running around in his underwear, trying to help people, was just hilarious.

Through all of his hilarious experiences at Fardale, Frank had not a stancher adherent.

Among the interlaced melodies of the human counterpoint are love songs and anacreontics, marches and savage dance-rhythms, hymns of hate and loud hilarious chanties.

During this time, he and Rick could swap stories, or Archimedes and Rick would put on what they thought were their hilarious comedy schticks and soft shoe routines, which bored Bill so tremendously that he would fall asleep if he even thought about them.

It had been hilarious, even though Blythe had had the good sense not to laugh.

The most hilarious aspect is that they all spoke exactly like Hugh, so despite the chaotic neural effects they must have been using his brain pattern as some kind of general Chomskyan grammatical template for English.

Vidron, who found the thought of a Rutch trapped in a drum being whaled by a Waeran hilarious.