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uproarious
What does uproarious mean?
uproarious (adjective): uncontrollably noisy.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use uproarious in a sentence?
- The crowd was uproarious after the ref made a bad call. (Tatoeba sentence #11535879 by letsgolanguages, CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do you pronounce uproarious?
/ˌʌpˈɹɔɹiəs/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does uproarious come from?
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”)).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Words related to uproarious
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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delicately beautiful
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hasty or superficial
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uncontrollably noisy
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not returned in kind
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