uproarious
Meanings
Adjective Satellite
- uncontrollably noisy
- marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter
- "uproarious stories"
Adj
- Causing, or likely to cause, an uproar.
- Characterized by uproar, that is, loud, confused noise, or by noisy and uncontrollable laughter.
- Extremely funny; hilarious.
- In a mess; dishevelled, untidy.
Origin / Etymology
From uproar + -ious (a variant of -ous (“suffix forming adjectives from nouns, to denote possession or presence of a quality in any degree, commonly in abundance”)).
Synonyms
amusing, blaring, blasting, booming, cacophonous, chucklesome, clamorous, clangorous, clattering, comedic, comic, comical, deafening, dinsome, droll, earsplitting, filarious, frolicsome, funnisome, funny, gut-busting, hilarious, howlarious, humorous, humourful, hysterical, jocular, joculatory, jokes, jokesome, joky, laugh-out-loud, laughable, laughworthy, loud, noisy, obstreperous, piercing, playful, rackety, raucous, resounding, rib-tickling, rip-roaring, risible, roisterous, rowdy, screaming, sidesplitting, sniggersome, strepitous, strident, tattyfilarious, thalian, thigh-slapping, thundering, tumultuous, uproarious, uproarish, vociferous, wacky, zany
Scrabble Score: 12
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