hilarious
Adjective Satellite
- marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter
- "hilarious broad comedy"
Adj
- Very funny; causing great merriment and laughter.
- Full of hilarity; merry.
Examples
- a hilarious joke
- Do you like Monty Python? I think they're hilarious.
Origin / Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin hilaris (“cheerful”) + -ous, from Ancient Greek ἱλαρός (hilarós, “cheerful, merry”).
Synonyms
screaming, uproarious, amusing, chucklesome, comedic, comic, comical, droll, filarious, frolicsome, funnisome, funny, gut-busting, hilarious, howlarious, humorous, humourful, hysterical, jocular, joculatory, jokes, jokesome, joky, laugh-out-loud, laughable, laughworthy, playful, rib-tickling, risible, sidesplitting, sniggersome, tattyfilarious, thalian, thigh-slapping, wacky, zany
Scrabble Score: 12
hilarious: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordhilarious: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
hilarious: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary