adj
Meaning 1
Causing, or likely to cause, an uproar.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
uproarious
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Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ʌpˈɹɔː.ɹɪ.əs/
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General-American: /ˌʌpˈɹɔ.ɹi.əs/
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rhymes with -ɔːɹiəs
adj
Meaning 2
Characterized by uproar, that is, loud, confused noise, or by noisy and uncontrollable laughter.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: uproarish, blaring, blasting, booming, cacophonous, clangorous, clamorous, clattering, deafening, dinsome, earsplitting, loud, noisy, obstreperous, piercing, rackety, raucous, resounding, roisterous, rowdy, strepitous, strident, thundering, tumultuous, uproarious, vociferous
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Extremely funny; hilarious.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: amusing, chucklesome, comedic, comic, comical, droll, filarious, frolicsome, funnisome, funny, gut-busting, hilarious, howlarious, humourful, humorous, hysterical, jocular, joculatory, jokes, jokesome, joky, laughable, laugh-out-loud, laughworthy, playful, priceless, rib-tickling, risible, screaming, sidesplitting, sniggersome, tattyfilarious, thalian, thigh-slapping, uproarious, wacky, zany
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 4
In a mess; dishevelled, untidy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 5
marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- hilarious broad comedy
- a screaming farce
- uproarious stories
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: hilarious, screaming(a)
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 6
uncontrollably noisy
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: rackety, rip-roaring
Antonyms: none provided
History
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”)).
Across languages
Translations
10 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: шумен (šumen) — characterised by uproar, that is, loud, confused noise, or by noisy and uncontrollable laughter
- Bulgarian: гръмогласен (grǎmoglasen) — characterised by uproar, that is, loud, confused noise, or by noisy and uncontrollable laughter
- Chinese Mandarin: 喧囂的 (xuānxiāode) — characterised by uproar, that is, loud, confused noise, or by noisy and uncontrollable laughter
- French: tumultueux — characterised by uproar, that is, loud, confused noise, or by noisy and uncontrollable laughter
- Ancient Greek: θορυβώδης (thorubṓdēs) — characterised by uproar, that is, loud, confused noise, or by noisy and uncontrollable laughter
- Māori: hoi — characterised by uproar, that is, loud, confused noise, or by noisy and uncontrollable laughter
- Spanish: clamoroso — characterised by uproar, that is, loud, confused noise, or by noisy and uncontrollable laughter
- Spanish: estruendoso — characterised by uproar, that is, loud, confused noise, or by noisy and uncontrollable laughter
- Spanish: fragoso — characterised by uproar, that is, loud, confused noise, or by noisy and uncontrollable laughter
- Spanish: fragoroso — characterised by uproar, that is, loud, confused noise, or by noisy and uncontrollable laughter