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hilarious

adj
/hɪˈlɛə.ɹi.əs/UK/hɪˈlɛ(ə)ɹ.i.əs/US/hɪˈlæɹ.i.əs/

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin hilaris (“cheerful”) + -ious, from Ancient Greek ἱλαρός (hilarós, “cheerful, merry”).

  1. derived from ἱλαρός
  2. learned borrowing from hilaris — “cheerful”

Definitions

  1. Very funny

    Very funny; causing great merriment and laughter.

    • a hilarious joke
    • Do you like Monty Python? I think they're hilarious.

  2. Full of hilarity

    Full of hilarity; merry.

    • Cold Doctor Pell here refused a very considerable fee. He could on occasion behave handsomely; but I can't learn that blustering, hilarious Doctor Rogerson ever refused his.
    • In order to turn the minds of hilarious guests to seriousness, they would start singing a responsive song, the subject of which was death and the earnestness of life.
    • Rounding up the animals in the misty paddocks, with the blackbirds singing as the morning whitened, he felt hilarious, light-headed. He'd clap the cows on their rumps and shout "Come along, there! Come along there, me Irish darlint."

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Derived

hilariously, hilariousness, hilarity, howlarious, sadlarious, unhilarious

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at hilarious. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01hilarious02merriment03playful04enjoying05enjoy06fun07amusing

A definitional loop anchored at hilarious. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at hilarious

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA