hilarity

hi·lar·i·ty

noun \-ə-tē\

Definition of HILARITY

: boisterous merriment or laughter

Examples of HILARITY

1. My attempt to carve the turkey was a source of great hilarity at the dinner table.
2. <hilarity is the last thing you expect to find at a funeral, but we were there to celebrate his life rather than to dwell on his death>

First Known Use of HILARITY

15th century

Related to HILARITY

Synonyms: cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, festivity, gaiety (also gayety), gayness, glee, gleefulness, mirth, jocundity, joviality, merriment, merriness, mirthfulness

Related Words: frivolity, levity; jollification, jollity, reveling (or revelling), revelry; brightness, buoyancy, good-humoredness, good-naturedness, humor, sunniness; gamesomeness, insouciance, lightheartedness, playfulness, sportiveness; buffoonery, clownishness, flippancy, funning, jest, jesting, jocoseness, jocosity, jocularity, joking, joshing; animation, giddiness, jauntiness, liveliness, perkiness, vivacity; joyfulness, joyousness, jubilance, rejoicing; frolicking, gamboling (or gambolling), rollicking, romping

Near Antonyms: blues, dejection, depression, despondence, forlornness, sadness, sorrow, unhappiness; bile, gloom, melancholy, sourness, spleen; earnestness, graveness, gravity, grimness, seriousness, soberness, sobersidedness, solemnity, solemnness; discontent, disgruntlement, moodiness; dolefulness, dolorousness, joylessness, mournfulness, plaintiveness, woe, woefulness; blackness, darkness, gloominess, glumness; desolateness, desolation; heartbreak, miserableness, misery, mourning, wretchedness

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Rhymes with HILARITY

unclarity, vulgarity