What's the difference between exuberant and hilarious?

Exuberant


Definition:

  • (a.) Characterized by abundance or superabundance; plenteous; rich; overflowing; copious or excessive in production; as, exuberant goodness; an exuberant intellect; exuberant foliage.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) From ten days to six weeks of age patches are exuberant and on occasion fuse to beaded bands extending radially from the injection site.
  • (2) The company’s exuberant chief operating officer, Bibop Gresta (who also takes the title “chief bibop officer”) listed all the ways his plan built on Musk’s.
  • (3) "As to the origins of this practice, I'm not certain, but the exuberance of Argentina's public displays of emotion go a long way, since the descamisados of Peron in the 1940s," he adds.
  • (4) But the director Lionel Jeffries was such an exuberant personality, you couldn't say no.
  • (5) Throughout history there have been periods of wild exuberance followed by the pricking of bubbles.
  • (6) The early failures were most commonly attributed to technical factors (33 percent) and graft occlusion by exuberant pericardial scarring (33 percent).
  • (7) Maroh did, however, criticise the film's explicit sex scenes , saying they brought to mind "a brutal and surgical display, exuberant and cold, of so-called lesbian sex, which turned into porn, and made me feel very ill at ease … I lost the control of my book as soon as I gave it away to be read.
  • (8) There were no signs of valvular stenosis, exuberant peel formation, or calcification of the conduit in any of the patients.
  • (9) The histology, which varies according to the stage of the disease, is characterized by an exuberant intrasinusoidal histiocytic proliferation.
  • (10) Yet, there is no doubt that All Star has been targeted for its specific qualities – the main ones being its feelgood nostalgia value and a laughably exuberant pop-punk style that feels totally earnest.
  • (11) It is suggested that this 'Good Samaritan' activity of RBCs may lead to haemolysis during periods of exuberant antibody response to microbes.
  • (12) But only now, when the world's biggest economies have been lashed by the fallout from the irrational exuberance of the markets, has the idea captured the imagination of their leaders, including Gordon Brown , right.
  • (13) As tales of joy filtered through social media and local news websites, accompanied, inevitably, by exuberant pictures of leaping teens, a few stories stood out from the others.
  • (14) Blockade of the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors on retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) during development prevents the elimination of the exuberant spine-like processes in a population of Type I RGCs in hamsters.
  • (15) But although the Chinese economy has picked up again, there is no ground for exuberance.
  • (16) Osteoblastic osteitis is a rare kind of bone infection typified by a proliferative reaction of the periosteum and by exuberant bone formation.
  • (17) Once microbial colonisation is established, the host responds exuberantly with non-specific and immune inflammatory responses which fail to clear the microbial flora but damage the 'innocent bystander' lung.
  • (18) It expands what language can do and what fiction can do, and when a reader collides with that unruly exuberance, he or she has to shift perspective.
  • (19) An exuberant chronic aseptic meningitis with foreign body giant cells and immunoreactive keratin was present around the spinal cord and brainstem.
  • (20) Since no evidence of topographical exuberance of connections could be found, it is hypothesized that the development of anterior commissure connections is entirely progressive, lacking the regressive events that characterize callosal ontogenesis.

Hilarious


Definition:

  • (a.) Mirthful; noisy; merry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ramzan Kadyrov is joined by Jean-Claude Van Damme and Hilary Swank at his birthday party in Grozny in 2011.
  • (2) Writers are being hired on new US shows on the basis of their consistently hilarious Twitter accounts (such as Alison Agosti and Bryan Donaldson for Seth Meyers) and where producers Stateside lead, ours are guaranteed to follow.
  • (3) Okay, that number 8 ranking isn’t incredibly impressive but it’s much better than, say, settling for a NIT bid and then (hilariously) losing in the first round .
  • (4) Specifically, the often under-reported fact that many of them are hilarious.
  • (5) And they kept coming … the hilarious Octodad: Dadliest Catch , the chilling psychological horror game Daylight , which again, uses procedural generation to create new environments (procedural content is another next-gen theme); and Galak-Z from 17bit Studios, described as an AI and physics-driven open-world action game.
  • (6) Peter Moffat (Criminal Justice) I had a meeting at the BBC yesterday with Ben Stephenson, Kate Harwood, Manda Levin and Hilary Salmon.
  • (7) Whereupon Madonna's PR guy Trevor Neilson (who doesn't seem to be too great at his job judging by the way in which a routine baby-hugging photo-op has descended into a hilarious international shitshow) hit back, giving quotes to The Globe and Mail reporter Geoffrey York.
  • (8) "Great Yuletide fun on ITV now: hilarious reparations as Dannii Minogue performs a selection of the biblical world's most hideous acts of penance in front of a panel of witheringly critical bisexual judges."
  • (9) Winterton used these acceptances to persuade others to climb aboard: “Andy is in, Hilary is in.” Corbyn was on the phone to Chuka Umunna, then shadow business secretary, who had been careful to brief that he was not going to immediately walk out but wait to see what Corbyn said on policy.
  • (10) But there will probably always be a rump that waves away terms like "human dignity" as so much leftwing blarney; who think foreigners are fundamentally different and are worth less, who think it's important to clean behind fridges, and furthermore, that women should be doing it; who think if they're ever caught out they can call it a joke, and that their joke will be hilarious.
  • (11) Corbyn then spoke to Hilary Benn and offered him the shadow foreign secretary position, even though Corbyn knew he was pro-Europe, pro-Nato and pro-Trident.
  • (12) Hilary was one of few senior MPs whose expenses claims were totally beyond reproach – no surprise there.
  • (13) Write what you know, the saying goes, and Marber did just that, painting a hilarious, unsentimental portrait of how men behave when they get together to compete.
  • (14) Most people still don’t know who Hilary Benn is, let alone that he made a well-regarded speech.
  • (15) It displayed his immense talent for impressions, had simple but hilarious observations and was able to appeal to a diverse audience without pandering or carpet N-bombing as a punchline.
  • (16) Hair colouring is one such example: as the great Nora Ephron wrote in her hilarious essay On Maintenance , "Sometimes I think that not having to worry about your hair any more is the secret upside of death," and ain't that the truth.
  • (17) How did Hilary Benn, Maria Eagle, Charles Falconer and Paul Kenny choose Trident as the totem of revolt?
  • (18) He has this hilarious, very dry sense of humour, and just before I left, I said to him, ‘So what do you think?’ And he typed out, ‘I wish you luck.’ And then, with this really cheeky twinkle in his eye, added, ‘But not too much.’” Demis Hassabis gives me his own disarming smile.
  • (19) It would be an epic, devastatingly hilarious battle on the scale of Godzilla and Mothra.
  • (20) A variety of sources, some of whom have been attributed as being ‘aides’ to Jeremy or those ‘close’ to the leader, have apparently stood up speculation that Hilary Benn, Rosie Winterton, Maria Eagle and me (amongst others) are all for the chop for not voting against extending military action from Iraq into Syria during the recent free vote in the Commons.