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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: uncontrollably noisy [syn: rackety, rip-roaring, uproarious]
2: marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter; "hilarious broad comedy"; "a screaming farce"; "uproarious stories" [syn: hilarious, screaming, uproarious]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1800 1. marked by uproar 2. very noisy and full 3. extremely funny <an uproarious comedy> • uproariously adverb • uproariousness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 very noisy. 2 provoking loud laughter. Derivatives: uproariously adv. uproariousness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Uproarious Up*roar"i*ous, a. Making, or accompanied by, uproar, or noise and tumult; as, uproarious merriment. -- Up*roar"i*ous*ly, adv. -- Up*roar"i*ous*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

When events or people are uproarious, they make people laugh in a very noisy way. (LITERARY) He had spent several uproarious evenings at the Embassy Club... The noise of talk and laughter was uproarious. ADJ • uproariously Bob laughed uproariously. ...an uproariously funny story. ADV: ADV after v, ADV adj

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. (Colloq.) Boisterous, tumultuous, loud, noisy, clamorous, obstreperous.

Moby Thesaurus

anarchic, angry, blaring, blatant, blatting, blustering, blusterous, blustery, boisterous, brassy, brawling, brazen, chaotic, clamant, clamorous, clamoursome, clanging, clangorous, clattery, deafening, disorderly, excited, frantic, frenzied, furious, hellish, hilarious, hysterical, infuriate, insensate, killing, mad, mafficking, mindless, noiseful, noisy, obstreperous, orgasmic, orgastic, pandemoniac, rackety, raging, ravening, raving, riotous, rip-roaring, rowdy, sonorous, storming, stormy, strepitant, strepitous, tempestuous, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent, vociferous, wild