[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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
uproarious
adj 1: uncontrollably noisy [syn: rackety, rip-roaring,
uproarious]
2: marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive
laughter; "hilarious broad comedy"; "a screaming farce";
"uproarious stories" [syn: hilarious, screaming(a),
uproarious]
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