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Uproariously

Definition: Uproariously

Uproariously

Adverb

1. In a hilarious manner; "hilariously funny".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "uproariously" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1832. (references)


Synonym: Uproariously

Synonym: hilariously (adv). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Uproariously

"Uproariously" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Uproariously" is used about 21 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)100%2176,261

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Uproariously

Language Translations for "uproariously"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

luth. (various references)

   

German

  

lärmend (blatant, blatantly, clamorous, fussing, making noise, making-noise, noisily, noising, noisy, roistering, uproarious, vociferous), la.rmend, bru.llend, brüllend (bellowing, blaring, blatant, blatantly, roaring, uproarious). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

θορυβωδώσ (blustery, boisterously, noisily, rowdily). (various references)

   

Italian

  

liuto (loudly, lute, unquietly). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oariouslyupray

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Uproariously

Misspellings

"Uproariously" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: opprobriously. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Uproariously

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-i-l-o-o-p-r-r-s-u-u-y"

-2 letters: uproarious.

-3 letters: polyurias, prolusory.

-4 letters: parlours, polyuria, porously, sporular, surroyal.

-5 letters: arroyos, larrups, ooralis, ouraris, parlors, parlour, parlous, piously, priorly, prosily, pursily, pylorus, pyrolas, pyrrols, pyurias, roupily, soapily, sororal, sorrily, spirula, uproars.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Uproariously


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 70 72 6F 61 72 69 6F 75 73 6C 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01110000 01110010 01101111 01100001 01110010 01101001 01101111 01110101 01110011 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#112 &#114 &#111 &#97 &#114 &#105 &#111 &#117 &#115 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 0070 0072 006F 0061 0072 0069 006F 0075 0073 006C 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

558284816784758187857891

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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