What's the difference between hilarious and uproarious?

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.

Uproarious


Definition:

  • (a.) Making, or accompanied by, uproar, or noise and tumult; as, uproarious merriment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For myself, it’s not something I’ve been accustomed to experimenting with.” Spy review – uproarious Paul Feig comedy tickles SXSW Read more Feig wrote the part especially for Statham.
  • (2) Then, he took me to task for things other people had told me about him, hooting uproariously at the notion that any of them was in a position to talk about him.
  • (3) If I was able to channel the man, it was entirely due to Green, who has truly brought him and his work back to us with all his uproarious, dangerous vitality intact.
  • (4) He clearly doesn't consider himself a liability - he laughs uproariously when I tell him this - but if getting less than 16% in an election isn't enough of a message, what would it take?
  • (5) Ghoochannejhad performed well even if he did not score in the 1-0 win that put Iran's qualification back on track, though he did hit the decisive goal when Iran and South Korea met again in Ulsan nine months later, a victory that secured qualification for Brazil as well as settling an uproarious feud that had broken out between the South Korea manager, Choi Kang-hee, and his Iran counterpart, the former Manchester United assistant manager Carlos Queiroz.
  • (6) Gradually he relaxed - and slightly coarsened - into the role his new admirers seemed to want, into a globetrotting, tax-exiled celebrity who told uproarious tales in funny foreign voices, into the Hercule Poirot film series, which allowed him painfully little range or scope.
  • (7) "[He] turns the play's great set piece in which he simultaneously serves dinner to his two masters into one of the most uproarious scenes of farcical comedy I have ever witnessed ...
  • (8) Join the crowd live from London's O2 in a final weepy, hilarious, uproarious, outrageous farewell to the five remaining Pythons as they head for The Old Jokes Home … on the big screen, in HD."
  • (9) The last time the west laughed so uproariously at a Korean singer was when an animated Kim Jong-il bewailed how "ronery" he was in the film Team America, and how nobody took him "serirousry".
  • (10) Yet he will stand as essentially a comic writer in the English tradition - comic in the least uproarious way imaginable, reflective and often melancholic, the strong social spine to his work being the one distinctively uncommon feature in a branch of writing remarkable more for eccentricity than togetherness.
  • (11) Miranda is a sitcom that divides offices, families and friends with its old-fashioned gags and slapstick comedy: it seems you either find a clumsy tall woman falling over and then rolling her eyes at the camera gloriously, uproariously amusing – or unfathomably childish and annoying.
  • (12) All were uproariously indelicate working-class comedies - although when necessary, as in A Taste of Honey, Littlewood could direct with great delicacy.
  • (13) 'Rupert loves meddling, and he's uproariously indiscreet at times, often for his own amusement.'

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