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

Rhymes with HILARITY

unclarity, vulgarity