hilarious
UK/hɪˈlɛə.ɹi.əs/US/hɪˈlɛ(ə)ɹ.i.əs/
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hilarious adjective: very funny; causing great merriment and laughter.
Adjective
hilarious (comparative more hilarious, superlative most hilarious)
- Very funny; causing great merriment and laughter.
- a hilarious joke
- Do you like Monty Python? I think they're hilarious.
- Synonyms:
- amusing, chucklesome, comedic, comic, comical, droll, filarious, frolicsome, funnisome, funny
- 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.1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard
- 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.1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 98
hilarious meaning in Urdu, Malayalam, Kannada and Gujarati
hilarious in Urdu
- چوہل باز, مگن, قہقہہ آور, زندہ دل
hilarious in Malayalam
- ആഹ്ലാദഭരിതമായ, ആഹ്ലാദത്തോടുകൂടിയ, അത്യന്തം രസകരമായ
hilarious in Kannada
- ನಕ್ಕುನಗಿಸುವ, ನಗೆಯುಕ್ಕಿಸುವ, ಗೆಲುವಿನ, ಉಲ್ಲಾಸಭರಿತ, ಸಂಭ್ರಮ, ಕೋಲಾಹಲಗಳಿಂದ ಕೂಡಿದ
hilarious in Gujarati
- હાસ્યજનક
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- hilarious in Arabic
- مَرِح mariḥ, مُضْحِك muḍḥik
- hilarious in Persian
- خنده دار, مضحک
- hilarious in Vietnamese
- hài hước
Examples of hilarious in a sentence
- The best man's speech was hilarious, full of wit and charm.
- He was hilarious, and remained the top banana on the tour for years.
- That movie was both hilarious and touching; it was the best of both worlds.
Synonyms of hilarious
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Forms of hilarious
| comparative | more hilarious |
|---|---|
| superlative | most hilarious |
Origin of hilarious
Learned borrowing from Latin hilaris (“cheerful”) + -ious, from Ancient Greek ἱλαρός (hilarós, “cheerful, merry”).
Words formed from hilarious
Words that rhyme with hilarious
- cibarious
- scarious
- Stradivarius
- tartareous
- vagarious
- vicarious
- Aquarius
- atrabilarious
- calcareous
- contrarious
- lampadarius
- librarius
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- malarious
- multifarious
- omnifarious
- precarious
- riparious
- testudinarious
- various
- acinarious
- adversarious
- anticarious
- apocrisarius
- apocrisiarius
- arbitrarious
- arenarious
- argillocalcareous
- armarius
- assarius
- atramentarious
- Belisarius
- bordarius
- burglarious
- caeremoniarius
- calcarious
- carious
- confessarius
- corneo-calcareous
- cotarius
- duplicarius
- filarious
- fimetarious
- frumentarious
- glareous
- howlarious
- lapidarious
- librarious
- multivarious
- nectareous
- nectarious
- nefarious
- nightmarious
- noncalcareous
- noncarious
- nongregarious
- nonmalarious
- nonvicarious
- octarius
- octofarious
- octonarius
Questions about hilarious
- What does hilarious mean?
- Hilarious means very funny; causing great merriment and laughter.
- What is hilarious in Urdu?
- Hilarious in Urdu is چوہل باز, مگن, قہقہہ آور. See Hilarious meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is hilarious?
- Hilarious is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce hilarious?
- Hilarious is pronounced /hɪˈlɛə.ɹi.əs/ (UK).
Words near hilarious in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: hilarious (page history and authors); hilarious (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hilarious (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hilarious (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hilarious (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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