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UK
/ʌpɹˈɔːɹɪəs/
]
ADJECTIVE
- uncontrollably noisy
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marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter
hilarious broad comedy
uproarious stories
a screaming farce
How To Use uproarious In A Sentence
- The Brits, with their propensity for schoolboy humour and scatology, deal with the subject by uproarious laughter.
- And the future, the value of residential, the developer of housing in the green again, we run out laugh uproariously .
- I didn't expect him until dinnertime. He just about scared the bejabbers out of me as he sneaked up behind me and burst into this sudden, uproarious laughter.
- Such defiantly provocative work, and the uproarious punk music which accompanied it, won him cult status.
- Sheffer -- who knew what makes business men laugh -- pinned his simple faith to three main subjects, convulsive of the diaphragmatic muscles, building up each series upon the inherent humor to be extracted from physical violence as represented in the perpetrations and punishments of Ruff and Reddy, marital infidelity as mirrored in the stratagems and errancies of an amorous ape with an aged and jealous spouse, and the sure-fire familiarity of aged minstrel jokes (mother-in-law, country constable, young married cookery, and the like) refurbished in pictorial serials through the agency of two uproarious and imbecilic vulgarians, Bonehead and Buttinsky. Success A Novel
- She could also be light-hearted and uproariously funny.
- Burn's suppers range from formal gatherings to uproariously informal rave-ups of drunkards and louts.
- ‘Our general is no more,’ was all he said, though loud enough for all the men to hear, and it was soon ensued by an enormously uproarious cheer from the troops.
- Two weeks later, having beaten the Yankees in an uproarious division series, they lost the American League Championship Series in six games to Cleveland, and the Mariners went home.
- Some of the men now coming over it with the police had travelled it with Wolseley a few years previously and would have vivid recollections of the flies and mud and portages and the need of manufacturing skidways over the bogs, but they would also recall the irrepressible and uproarious spirit in which they used to sing of their additional accomplishments in the rollicking "Jolly Boys" chorus: Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police