单词 | hilarious |
释义 | hilarious (once / 2276 pages) adj One person can find a joke a little funny, while someone else might find it downright hilarious. When something is super-funny, it's hilarious. Hilarious is an adjective that describes a high degree of humor. Things that are funny can cause you to smile or giggle, but when something is hilarious, it causes you to laugh out loud. Of course, what's hilarious to me might not be to you. When I scribbled obscenities on your face while you were asleep? I found that totally hilarious. You? Not so much. Hilarious is also used sarcastically, when something isn't funny at all. Like when you woke up: you glared at me and said "Hilarious." WORD FAMILYhilarious: hilariously+/hilarity: hilarious, hilarities USAGE EXAMPLESAnd a few of them performed some of the more hilarious contortions seen on the campaign trail to deflect attention from the damaging revelations. Salon(Jan 01, 2017) The Times’ Meredith Woerner called the book “an unflinching, sometimes painful, sometimes hilarious look inside the mind of a 19-year-old actress.” Los Angeles Times(Dec 28, 2016) Richard Pryor cemented his reputation as the greatest stand-up of his generation by spinning his story of setting himself on fire into a hilarious yarn. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) adj marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter hilarious broad comedy Syn screaming, uproarious humorous, humourous full of or characterized by humor |
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