Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Causing or accompanied by an uproar.
- adjective Loud and full; boisterous.
- adjective Causing hearty laughter; hilarious.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Making or accompanied by a great uproar, noise, or tumult; tumultuous; noisy; loud.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Making, or accompanied by, uproar, or noise and tumult.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Characterized by
loud ,confused noise , or bynoisy anduncontrollable laughter .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective uncontrollably noisy
- adjective marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter
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Examples
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At Cork, to which they drove across the hills, a reception awaited Sir Walter which rivalled in uproarious acclamation the one which had greeted his arrival in Ireland.
Maria Edgeworth 1905
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Assemblies, or by what other name the poor Black wretches might choose to call their uproarious merrymakings.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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a mussel the the ancient was carrying to his mouth; and when the grit of it bit into the old fellow's mucous membrane and gums, the laughter was again uproarious.
Page 5 2010
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The sailors were said to be "uproarious" over the news.
Greg Mitchell: The Day After Hiroshima: When the Atomic "Cover-Up" Began, 64 Years Ago 2009
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The sad thing is, George Soros spent a lot of money setting up this organization to do exactly this kind of uproarious, knee-slapping, mindless bullshit.
Media Matters doesn't understand the word "despite." Ann Althouse 2009
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a mussel the the ancient was carrying to his mouth; and when the grit of it bit into the old fellow's mucous membrane and gums, the laughter was again uproarious.
The Scarlet Plague 1912
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The "playing songs," and kissing, the joyous peels of laughter, the continuous gleeful mirth, the "uproarious" outbursts of merriment, beggar all description, I therefore lay down my pen, and leave the reader to imagine, what must have been the impressions on the mind of Miss Nellie Norton, just from New England.
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She said she was also cognizant of the importance of improving the students 'vocabulary, using words, such as uproarious and patrons, or alliteration words, such as grin and giggle in the book.
unknown title 2008
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Brooks also paid an uproarious visit to Carson's late-night heir, David Letterman, earlier this week.
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Oni has some other titles that show this potential: the uproarious Black Metal, the excellent Last Call, and the beautiful mess that is Sharknife.
Milestone musings 2010
edes commented on the word uproarious
laughter!
August 20, 2007