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Uproarious
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- 1 Causing, or likely to cause, an uproar.
"“Oh! there's no fear of him,” said Burgess, cheerily; “if he grows uproarious, we'll soon give him a touch of the cat.”"
- 2 Characterized by uproar, that is, loud, confused noise, or by noisy and uncontrollable laughter.
"The noise in this room was perfectly tumultuous, […] every child was conducting itself like forty. The consequences were uproarious beyond belief; but no one seemed to care; on the contrary, the mother and daughter laughed heartily, and enjoyed it very much; and the latter, soon beginning to mingle in the sports, got pillaged by the young brigands most ruthlessly."
- 3 Extremely funny; hilarious. broadly
"Yet as with Booksmart, the summer's earlier riff on that Apatovian classic, there are times when Good Boys feels a little too nice to actually be uproarious. In more ways than one, it's the training wheels for a better comedy—a slightly edgier and funnier one."
- 4 In a mess; dishevelled, untidy. figuratively
- 1 marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter wordnet
- 2 uncontrollably noisy wordnet
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”)).
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