hilarious

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1. Very funny; causing great merriment and laughter.

   a hilarious joke

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   Do you like Monty Python? I think they're hilarious.

   Synonyms: amusing, chucklesome, comedic, comic, comical, droll, filarious, frolicsome

2. Full of hilarity; merry.

   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

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   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

   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."

   1944, Douglas Stewart, A Girl with Red Hair, and Other Stories, page 60