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Definition: Hilarious |
HilariousAdjective1. Marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter; "hilarious broad comedy"; "a screaming farce"; "uproarious stories". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "hilarious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1831. (references) |
Etymology: Hilarious \Hi*la"ri*ous\, adjective. [Latin expression hilaris, hilarus, Greek; compare to gracious, kindly.]. (references) |
Synonyms: HilariousSynonyms: screaming(a) (adj), uproarious (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Funny; very funny, hilarious, uproarious, side-splitting. |
Cheerfulness | Merry as a cricket, merry as a grig, merry as a marriage bell; joyful, joyous, jocund, jovial; jolly as a thrush, jolly as a sandboy; blithesome; gleeful, gleesome; hilarious, rattling. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Hilarious |
| English words defined with "hilarious": hilariously ♦ uproariously. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "hilarious": Drinking ♦ Witch. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Yeah, you're hilarious, Richard, you're just a regular riot (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin) This may be hilarious where you come from, but on this planet it's considered rude (Short Circuit; writing credit: Brent Maddock; S.S. Wilson) Wouldn't it be hilarious if it turned out you actually knew what you were doing (Mirage; writing credit: Howard Fast; Peter Stone) You know, they tell ya to never hit a man with a closed fist but it is, on occasion, hilarious. (Firefly; writing credit: John Sullivan) Screw you, I'm hilarious! (Freaks and Geeks; writing credit: Paul Feig; Judd Apatow) | |
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 | What happened to Jones Broadhurst's hilarious sufficiency : by George H. Broadhurst, author of Why Smith left home, The wrong Mr. Wright, etc. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Broadhurst's hilarious sufficiency, What happened to Jones by Geo. H. Broadhurst, author of Why Smith left home, The wrong Mr. Wright, The house that Jack built, etc. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Imitate" by Steve Commentary: "Me being hilarious." | "Mona Bazooka" by Thorarinn Stefansson Commentary: "I saw this hilarious graffiti art on a wall in London, September 2001." |
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| "Hilarious" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.29% of the time. "Hilarious" is used about 258 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 97.29% | 251 | 18,755 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.71% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 258 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "hilarious": hilarious stories ♦ hilarious uproarious ♦ it was hilarious. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "hilarious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shumë zbavitës, për të qeshur (comic, comical, humorous, laughable), i gëzueshëm (cheerful, cheery, festal, festive, frolic, frolicsome, gleeful, joyful, mirthful), gazmor (cheerful, cheery, convivial, debonair, easygoing, exhilarated, gay, genial, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, jaunty, jocular, jocund, jollier, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light hearted, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, riant, set up, zippy). (various references) | |
Arabic | مرح (airiness, airy, be merry, blithe, breezy, bright, buoyancy, buoyant, cheerful, cheerfulness, cheering, chirpy, exult, facetious, festive, fresh, frisk, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, fun, gaiety, gay, glee, gleeful, have fun, hilarity, jaunty, jocose, jocosity, jocund, jolly, jovial, joviality, joy, joyful, joyfulness, joyous, kittenish, lark, light, lightsome, lively, make merry, merriment, merry, merry making, mirth, mirthful, perkiness, perky, playful, playfulness, playing, rejoice, rollick, romp, sportive, sprightly, sunny, vivacious, vivacity, what fun, winsome), جذل (be glad, cheerful, exuberant, exult, exultant, exultation, glad, happy, jubilation, rapt, rapture, rapturous). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | весел и шумен, оживен (active, alive, animate, animated, brisk, bustling, crisp, effervescent, heated, lively, racy, roaring, rousing, rush, spirited, sprightly, stirring, thriving, vivacious). (various references) | |
Chinese | 热闹. (various references) | |
Czech | hroznì legraèní, veselý (blithesome, bright, cheerful, chirpy, convivial, exhilarated, gay, gleeful, happy, high-spirited, humorous, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyous, light hearted, lively, merry, mirthful, pleasant, rollicking, rorty, sportful, vivacious), povedený (funny), nesmírnì komický, bujarý (exuberant, jaunty). (various references) | |
Farsi | مضحک (Absurd, Burlesque, Comic, Droll, Grotesque, Laughable, Ludicrous, Preposterous, Ridiculous), خنده دار (Comic, Gig, Laughable, Queer, Ridiculous, Waggish). (various references) | |
French | hilare, hilarant. (various references) | |
German | vergnügt (amuses, blithe, cheerful, cheerfully, cheerily, enjoyable, gay, gleeful, happily, happy, jolly, merrily, merry, pleasant), ausgelassen (airy-fairy, boisterous, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, hilariously, left out, lewd, lively, mad, petulant, playful, rackety, rollicking, understood, wild, wreaked). (various references) | |
Greek | σπαρταριστικόσ, ιλάριοσ, ξεκαρδιστός, ξεκαρδιστικόσ, ξεκαρδιστικός, φαιδρόσ (blithe, cheerful, debonair, gay, genial, guy, jovial, vivacious, winsome), φαιδρός (cheerful, gay, merry), εύθυμοσ (blithe, chirpy, convivial, debonair, festive, frabjous, gay, happy go lucky, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyous, light hearted, merry, mirthful, resilient, sprightly, zippy). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מצחיק ביותר (sidesplitting), עליז (blithe, cheerful, festal, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, gay, jocose, jocund, jolly, joyful, light hearted, merry, mirthful, playful, sprightly), צוהל (exuberant, exultant, gleeful, gleesome, joyful, jubilant, rollicking). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vidám (amused, blithe, blithe as a lark, bobbish, cheerful, chirpy, comic, comical, daft, dashing, droll, exhilarated, felicitous, frisky, frolicsome, gay, glad, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, jaunty, jocose, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light hearted, light-hearted, mellow, merry, mirthful, playful, rejoicing, rollicking, sprightly, sunny, to be in high spirits), túláradóan vidám, hangosan jókedvű. (various references) | |
Indonesian | riang (boon, carefree, debonair, glee, jocund). (various references) | |
Italian | ilare (cheerful), giulivo, divertente (amusing, droll, enjoyable, entertaining, funny, humorous), allegro (allegro, blithe, blithesome, breezy, bright, buoyant, cheerful, cheery, frisky, frolicsome, gay, jocular, jolly, jovial, joyful, laughing, light hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, sportive, sprightly, sunny, wanton). (various references) | |
Korean | 들뜬. (various references) | |
Manx | feer aitt. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ilarioushay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | hilrio, divertido (amused, amusing, canty, diverting, droll, enjoyable, entertaining, frolicsome, funny, gamy, gay, jolly, larksome, laughable, merry, mirthful, playful, screaming, sportful, sportive, waggish), alegre (alive, blithe, blithesome, bonny, boon, breezy, brisk, buoyant, buxom, canty, cheerful, cheery, chirpy, coltish, convivial, corky, diverting, entertaining, exhilarated, festal, festive, frolicsome, gamesome, gay, glad, gladsome, gleeful, happy, holiday, jaunty, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, jubilant, larksome, laughing, light, light-hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, peart, resilient, slaphappy, sportful, sportive, sprightly, tipsy, vivid, volatile, winsome). (various references) | |
Romanian | vesel (blithe, blithesome, boon, breezy, bright, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, chirpy, convivial, crank, debonair, elastic, feastful, festal, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, full-blooded, gaily, gamesome, gay, genial, glad, gladsome, gleeful, happy, in full feather, in high feather, jauntily, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyfully, joyous, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, playful, pleasant, riant, saucy, sprightly, tails up, wanton). (various references) | |
Russian | шумный (knock about, noisy, obstreperous, rackety, roaring, robustious, roistering, rowdy, rumbustious, tumultuous, uproarious, vociferous), веселый (blithe, blithesome, breezy, canty, cheerful, cheery, chirpy, convivial, corky, debonair, exhilarated, exhilarating, festive, frolic, gamesome, gay, gleeful, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, playful, pleasant, set up, sportful, sportive, sprightly). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | smešan (amusing, comical, droll, funny, laughable, ludicrous, rich, ridicule, ridiculous), radostan (blithe, glad, gladdening, gladsome, gleesome, jocund, jolly, joyful, joyous, merry, rejoicing). (various references) | |
Spanish | hilarante, regocijante, graciosísimo (priceless). (various references) | |
Swedish | rolig (amusing, buffo, droll, entertaining, fun, funny, good), munter (blithe, breezy, cheerful, cheery, frolic, frolicsome, gay, gleeful, gleesome, jocose, jocund, jolly, merry, mirthful, sprightly), lustiga, lustig (amusing, comic, droll, funny, humorous, jocular, odd), glad (bonny, bright, canty, cheerful, cheery, Chirk, chirpy, debonair, delighted, gay, glad, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, happy, high, jocund, jolly, joyful, joyous, merry, pleased), festlig (convivial, festival, festive, grand, killing, uproarious). (various references) | |
Thai | ตลกขบขัน. (various references) | |
Turkish | neşeli (airy, animate, animated, blithe, boon, breezy, bright, bucked, buoyant, buoyed up, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, chirpy, cock-a-hoop, debonair, debonaire, easygoing, eupeptic, exhilarated, fit as a fiddle, full of beans, gamesome, gay, genial, gleeful, high, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, lively, merry, merrymaking, mirthful, perky, rambunctious, rollicking, slaphappy, spirited, sportive, sprightly, sunny, upbeat, vivacious), gürültülü (clamant, clamorous, clangorous, disorderly, hurly burly, jazz, knockabout, loud, noisy, rackety, rambunctious, riotous, roaring, robustious, rumbustious, thundering, tumultuary, tumultuous, uproarious, vociferous), eğlendirici (diverting, entertaining, fun, funny, recreative), şamatalı (rackety, uproarious). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | шумний (clamant, clamorous, loud, noiseful, noisy, obstreperous, open mouthed, oral, rackety, roaring, shrill, slap bang, tumultuary, tumultuous, uproarious, vociferous), галасливий (blusterous, blustery, boisterous, clamant, clamorous, knockabout, noisy, obstreperous, open mouthed, rambunctious, rip roaring, roistering, rowdy, rumbustious, screamy, wing-ding). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vui vẻ (blithe, blithesome, boon, canty, cheery, chirk, debonair, gay, genial, glad, gladsome, good-humored, good-humoured, heartily, hearty, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, laughing, merrily, mirthful, pleasant, sportful), vui nhộn (frolic, jaunty, rollicking). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "hilarious": hilariously, hilariousness, hilariousnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Hilarious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: filarioids, halarious, hallarious, hilacious, hilaires, Hilario, hilarios, hilariuos, Hilarius, hilarous, hillareous, hillarious, Ilarrio, Phleious. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "hilarious" (pronounced hule"rēus) |
| 5 | -e" r ē u s | gregarious, nefarious, precarious, various, vicarious. |
| 4 | -r ē u s | curious, deleterious, delirious, denarius, furious, glorious, illustrious, imperious, industrious, inglorious, injurious, laborious, lugubrious, meritorious, mysterious, notorious, pancreas, penurious, Sartorius, serious, spurious, victorious, vitreous. |
| 3 | -ē u s | acrimonious, alias, amphibious, aqueous, bilious, coleus, commodious, contemporaneous, copious, courteous, devious, dubious, envious, erroneous, extraneous, fastidious, felonious, gaseous, harmonious, hideous, homogeneous, igneous, ignominious, impervious, insidious, instantaneous, invidious, lascivious, luxurious, melodious, miscellaneous, nucleus, oblivious, obsequious, obvious, odious, percutaneous, previous, punctilious, radius, sanctimonious, simultaneous, spontaneous, studious, supercilious, tedious, unceremonious. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-h-i-i-l-o-r-s-u" | |
-3 letters: aiolis, ariosi, houris, sailor, souari, urials. | |
-4 letters: aioli, arils, auris, hails, hairs, halos, harls, hauls, hilar, hilus, hoars, horal, horas, houri, hours, hulas, hurls, lairs, laris, liars, liras, loris, louis, lours, ohias, orals, rails, rials, rishi, roils, shaul, shoal, shorl, solar, surah, sural, urial. | |
-5 letters: ails, airs, also, aril, hail, hair, halo, harl. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-h-i-i-l-o-r-s-u" | |
+2 letters: hilariously, thiouracils. | |
+3 letters: ailurophiles, unhistorical, urolithiases, urolithiasis. | |
+4 letters: ailurophobias, hilariousness. | |
+5 letters: inharmoniously, quadrillionths. | |
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