Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (2)
1. uncontrollably noisy;
[syn: rackety, rip-roaring, uproarious]
2. marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter;
- Example: "hilarious broad comedy"
- Example: "a screaming farce"
- Example: "uproarious stories"
[syn: hilarious, screaming(a), uproarious]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Uproarious \Up*roar"i*ous\, a. Making, or accompanied by, uproar, or noise and tumult; as, uproarious merriment. [1913 Webster] -- Up*roar"i*ous*ly, adv. -- Up*roar"i*ous*ness, n. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
58 Moby Thesaurus words for "uproarious": anarchic, angry, blaring, blatant, blatting, blustering, blusterous, blustery, boisterous, brassy, brawling, brazen, chaotic, clamant, clamorous, clamoursome, clanging, clangorous, clattery, deafening, disorderly, excited, frantic, frenzied, furious, hellish, hilarious, hysterical, infuriate, insensate, killing, mad, mafficking, mindless, noiseful, noisy, obstreperous, orgasmic, orgastic, pandemoniac, rackety, raging, ravening, raving, riotous, rip-roaring, rowdy, sonorous, storming, stormy, strepitant, strepitous, tempestuous, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent, vociferous, wild

