Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Characterized by or causing great merriment.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Gleefully gay or merry; manifesting high spirits; exhilarated; jolly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Mirthful; noisy; merry.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Very
funny ; causing greatmerriment andlaughter .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And hilarious -- absolutely hilarious* -- that Dems have no media allies or waterboys, want no biases, etc.
Blogging on Instapundit, I take my first political shot at... Ann Althouse 2007
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Consider This: Although Hilario looks like the word hilarious, many people may not know the traditional Spanish pronunciation is “ee-LAR-ee-oh” with a silent h.
5-Star Baby Name Advisor Bruce Lansky 2008
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Consider This: Although Hilario looks like the word hilarious, many people may not know the traditional Spanish pronunciation is “ee-LAR-ee-oh” with a silent h.
5-Star Baby Name Advisor Bruce Lansky 2008
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Now that is what I call hilarious with a pause of "OMG"!
And you thought I was a "Nice" girl! Sarah Moore 2006
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What's hilarious is all these right-wing loonies on here thinking that this means they are on track to win the White House back in 2012!!
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We're curious how he's learned all these accents, which he effortlessly flows out in hilarious one-sided phone conversations.
Amazing British Kid Can Speak English In 24 Accents (VIDEO) Ross Luippold 2010
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I couldn't believe my eyes: a whole book of that gross humor, drawn in hilarious style?
Archive 2009-07-01 Heather McDougal 2009
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We're curious how he's learned all these accents, which he effortlessly flows out in hilarious one-sided phone conversations.
Amazing British Kid Can Speak English In 24 Accents (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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I couldn't believe my eyes: a whole book of that gross humor, drawn in hilarious style?
Little Vampire (and Other Little Folk) Heather McDougal 2009
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Even more hilarious is the fact that this supposedly evil intrusion of the government into private business and industry is very, very, very close to the Republican plan * from 1993 that was offered as an alternative to the Clintons 'health care plan*.
bilby commented on the word hilarious
"It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious."
- Bill Hicks.
July 7, 2008