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rip-roarious

rip-roarious is the alternative form of riproarious.

Meaning of riproarious

Adjective

riproarious (comparative more riproarious, superlative most riproarious)

  1. (US, archaic, colloquial) Full of hilarity.
    • Well, you are a riproarious fellow, Rory, and no mistake; […]1853, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances, page 196

Forms of rip-roarious

comparativemore rip-roarious
superlativemost rip-roarious

Questions about rip-roarious

What is rip-roarious the alternative form of?
Rip-roarious is the alternative form of riproarious.

Words near rip-roarious in the dictionary

  1. rip-offs
  2. rip-rap
  3. rip-raps
  4. rip-roaring
  5. rip-roaringly
  6. rip-roarious
  7. rip-snorting mad
  8. RIPA
  9. ripamatic
  10. ripamatics
  11. Ripano

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