Definition of "uproarious" []

• Causing or accompanied by an uproar: an uproarious New Year's party. (adjective)
• Loud and full; boisterous: uproarious laughter. (adjective)
• Causing hearty laughter; hilarious: uproarious tales. (adjective)

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• "At Cork, to which they drove across the hills, a reception awaited Sir Walter which rivalled in uproarious acclamation the one which had greeted his arrival in Ireland."
• "Assemblies, or by what other name the poor Black wretches might choose to call their uproarious merrymakings."
• "a mussel the the ancient was carrying to his mouth; and when the grit of it bit into the old fellow's mucous membrane and gums, the laughter was again uproarious."