Uproarious

Definition: Uproarious

Uproarious

Adjective

1. Uncontrollably noisy.

2. Marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter; "hilarious broad comedy"; "a screaming farce"; "uproarious stories".

Date "uproarious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Synonyms: Uproarious

Synonyms: hilarious (adj), rackety (adj), rip-roaring (adj), screaming(a) (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Amusement	Funny; very funny, hilarious, uproarious, side-splitting.
Excitability	Rampant, clamorous, uproarious, turbulent, tempestuous, tumultuary, boisterous.
Violence	Turbulent; disorderly; blustering, raging; Verb: troublous, riotous; tumultuary, tumultuous; obstreperous, uproarious; extravagant; unmitigated; ravening, inextinguishable, tameless; frenzied; (insane). desperate; (rash); infuriate, furious, outrageous, frantic, hysteric, in hysterics.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Uproarious

English words defined with "uproarious": bash, brawl ♦ do ♦ make happy, make merry, make whoopie ♦ racket, revel, Routish, Rowdydowdy ♦ To go it ♦ wassail, whoop it up. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	New Age Travelers: Vanloads of Uproarious Humanity (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Uproarious Twenties in Dixieland/Wilbur and His New Orleans Orchestra (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Uproarious" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Uproarious" is used about 16 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)	100%	16	87,710

Expressions using "uproarious": hilarious uproarious ♦ in uproarious spirits. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "uproarious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i zhurmshëm (clamorous, knock about, loud, loudmouthed, obstreperous, roaring, robustious, roistering, rumbustious, tumultuary, tumultuous, vocal, vociferous), i potershëm (jazz, knock about, obstreperous, rackety, rambunctious, rowdy, thundering, tumultuous, vociferous). (various references)

Arabic		‏هائج (agitated, bad tempered, berserk, boiled, eruptive, fermentable, mad, nervy, phrenic, rambunctious, rampant, rapturous, restive, restless, riotous, rough, rousing, stormy, tempestuous, tumultuous, turbulent), ‏ضاج (loud, obstreperous, rackety, raucous), ‏صاخب (boisterous, discordant, furious, gusty, loud, loudmouthed, obstreperous, rackety, randy, rattling, raucous, riotous, rip roaring, roistering, saturnine, shrill, staring, tempestuous, termagant, tumultuous, vociferous). (various references)

Bulgarian		шумен (barbaric, bustling, clamorous, knockabout, loud, loudmouthed, noisy, obstreperous, openmouthed, rackety, rambunctious, raucous, resounding, roaring, robustious, roistering, rollicking, rough and tumble, rowdy, rumbustious, slam-bang, slaphappy, smacking, tumultuary, tumultuous, turbulent). (various references)

Czech		povykující, jásavý (jubilant, triumphant), hluèný (boisterous, clamant, clamorous, loud, lumbering, noisy, obstreperous, rowdy, vociferous), hlomozný, bouřlivý (blustery, boisterous, choppy, effervescent, fierce, franetic, gusty, loud, rapid, roaring, squally, stormy, tempestuous, thunderous, tumultuous, wild). (various references)

Farsi		پرهمهمه , پرغوغا, پرسروصدا (Blatant, Loudmouthed, Noisy, Obstreperous, Riproaring, Rowdy, Scrimmager, Unquiet, Vociferous), پرصدا (Loud, Sonorous, Vociferous). (various references)

French		tordant, hilarant, désopilant. (various references)

German		wahnsinnig komisch, tumultartig, la.rmend, tumultarig, stürmisch (ardent, blustering, blustery, boisterous, driving, frenzied, furious, gustily, gusty, impetuous, madcap, passionate, rapid, rapturous, rousing, squally, stormy, tempestuous, thunderous, thunderously, tumultuous, tumultuously, turbulent, turbulently, vehemently, wild), spektakulär (sensational, spectacular), lärmend (blatant, blatantly, clamorous, fussing, making noise, making-noise, noisily, noising, noisy, roistering, uproariously, vociferous), heftig (acute, ardent, bitter, boisterous, boisterously, bold, burning, cordial, driving, ferocious, fierce, furious, hotly, impetuous, impetuously, intemperate, intense, irascible, keen, lashing, passionate, profuse, profusely, quick, raging, severe, severely, sharp, splitting, stormy, strongly, tempestuous, tempestuously, testily, vehement, vehemently, vigorous, violent, violently, volcanic, warm, wild), brüllend (bellowing, blaring, blatant, blatantly, roaring, uproariously), überwältigend (daunting, overcoming, overmastering, overpowering, overwhelming, stunning, thrilling, torrential, vast). (various references)

Greek		ταραχώδησ (boisterous, obstreperous, rampageous, riotous, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent), θορυβώδησ (blusterous, boisterous, clamorous, noisy, obstreperous, rambunctious, roaring, roisterous, rumbustious, windy). (various references)

Hebrew		רועש (clamorous, noisy, tumultuous). (various references)

Hungarian		lármás (blustery, boisterous, clamorous, hue and cry, loud, noisy, obstreperous, rackety, rambunctious, rattling, robustic, robustious, rowdy, rumbustious, tumultuous, turbulent, vocal, vociferous). (various references)

Indonesian		gegap (clamorous, noisy). (various references)

Italian		tumultuoso (rowdy, turbulent, unruly). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�'然 (confused, noisy). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		そうぜ�" (binocular, blue, bluish, both eyes, confused, dim, noisy), はら�"ば�"じょう (stormy, troubles, ups and downs). (various references)

Pig Latin		oariousupray

Portuguese		tumultuoso (blustering, riotous, tumultuous, turbulent), ruidoso (altisonant, blatant, jazz, knockabout, loud, noisy, obstreperous, rackety, rampageous, rattling, roistering, viatic, windy), em desordem (helter-skelter, hugger-mugger, pell-mell, upside down), barulhento (altisonant, blustering, bustling, clamant, clamorous, fussy, howling, judas-colored, judas-coloured, knockabout, loud, noisy, obstreperous, rackety, randy, rattling, red, riotous, roistering, rowdy, rumbustious, tumultuary, tumultuous, turbulent, viatic). (various references)

Romanian		zgomotos (bacchanal, blusterous, boisterous, clamant, clamorous, loud, noisily, noisy, obstreperous, rampageous, Randy, rattling, resoundingly, riotous, robustious, roisterer, rowdy, rumbustious, tumultuous, vociferous, wanton). (various references)

Russian		шумный (hilarious, knock about, noisy, obstreperous, rackety, roaring, robustious, roistering, rowdy, rumbustious, tumultuous, vociferous), буйный (blustery, boisterous, exuberant, frenetic, luxuriant, obstreperous, rambunctious, rampageous, rank, robustious, rowdy, turbulent, unruly, wanton). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		bučan (boisterous, clamorous, earsplitting, loud, noisy, obstreperous, plangent, rambunctious, roistering, rumbustious, tin-pan, tumultuary, tumultuous, vocal, vociferous). (various references)

Spanish		estruendoso (clangorous, heavy, loud, noisy, thunderous). (various references)

Swedish		festlig (convivial, festival, festive, grand, hilarious, killing), dråplig (killing, rich, very funny), bråkig (contentious, disorderly, fractious, noisy, restless, rowdy, troublesome, turbulent). (various references)

Turkish		kahkahaya boğan (sidesplitting), gürültülü (clamant, clamorous, clangorous, disorderly, hilarious, hurly burly, jazz, knockabout, loud, noisy, rackety, rambunctious, riotous, roaring, robustious, rumbustious, thundering, tumultuary, tumultuous, vociferous), curcunalı, şamatalı (hilarious, rackety), şamatacı (boisterous, rackety, roisterer). (various references)

Ukrainian		що виклика�" гучний сміх, шумний (clamant, clamorous, hilarious, loud, noiseful, noisy, obstreperous, open mouthed, oral, rackety, roaring, shrill, slap bang, tumultuary, tumultuous, vociferous). (various references)

Vietnamese		om sòm náo động, �"n � o (bobbery, bounce, larrikin, noisy, rakety, riotous, rumbustious, tumultuous). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "uproarious": uproariously, uproariousness, uproariousnesses. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "uproarious" (pronounced 'Up*roar"i*ous'): Abdominous, Abiogenous, Ablatitious, Abnormous, Absentaneous, Absonous, Abstemious, Abstentious, Abstractitious, Acanthaceous, Acanthocarpous, Acanthocephalous, Acanthophorous, Acanthopodious, Acanthopterous, Acanthopterygious, Acarpellous, Acarpous, Acclivitous, Acclivous, Acephalous, Acetabuliferous, Acetarious, Acetous, Achilous, Achlamydeous, Acholous, Achromatous, Achroous, Achylous, Achymous, Acidiferous, Acidulous, Acinaceous, Acotyledonous, Acrimonious, Acrocarpous, Acrogenous, Acronyctous, Acrosporous, Acrotomous, Actinophorous, Aculeous, Acuminous, Addititious, Adelphous, Adenophorous, Adenophyllous, Adenous, Adiaphorous. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-i-o-o-p-r-r-s-u-u"
	-3 letters: ouraris, uproars.
	-4 letters: arioso, aurous, ourari, parous, pooris, porous, priors, sapour, souari, uproar, upsoar, uraris.
	-5 letters: arris, auris, orris, pairs, paris, parrs, pious, poori, pours, praos, praus, prior, proas, proso, psoai, puris, purrs, roars, roups, sapor, sirra, sirup, sopor, spoor, supra, surra, urari, usurp.
	Words containing the letters "a-i-o-o-p-r-r-s-u-u"
	+2 letters: uproariously.
	+4 letters: uproariousness.
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