hilarious
adjectifcourant dans les dialogues
- Royaume-Uni//hɪˈlɛə.ɹi.əs//
- Canada//hɪˈlɛ(ə)ɹ.i.əs//
- Australie//hɪˈleː.ɹi.əs//
- //hɪˈlæɹ.i.əs//
Very funny; causing great merriment and laughter.
adjectif
- 1
Very funny; causing great merriment and laughter.
a hilarious joke
Do you like Monty Python? I think they're hilarious.
- 2
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."
Étymologie
Learned borrowing from Latin hilaris (“cheerful”) + -ious, from Ancient Greek ἱλαρός (hilarós, “cheerful, merry”).
Formes
- comparatif
- more hilarious
- superlatif
- most hilarious
hilarious · Very funny; causing great merriment and laughter.
Hilary · A male given name from Latin.Hilda · A female given name from the Germanic languages used since…hill · An elevated landmass smaller than a mountain.