uproarious
3 synonyms and 1 antonym for uproarious, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Adj — Likely to cause a great noisy commotion.
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2. adj
Full of loud, chaotic noise or wild laughter.
“The two bushes looked up in surprise, and when they saw Dorothy, the Cowardly Lion and Sir Hokus, they fell into each other's branches and burst into the most uproarious laughter.”
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Etymology
From uproar + -ious (a variant of -ous (“suffix forming adjectives from nouns, to denote possession or presence of a quality in any degree, commonly in abundance”)).
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