UPROARIOUSLY Synonyms: 35 Similar and Opposite Words

uproariously

adverb

as in boisterously

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Recent Examples of uproariously Fresh, provocative and uproariously funny. — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 7 June 2026 Cunk on Earth plays like a Daily Show segment spread out across five hours, in which viewers watch the earnest — and ofttimes exasperated — talking heads field inane questions from Morgan’s uproariously daft Cunk. — Andrew Walsh, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Apr. 2026 There was nothing uproariously funny about the incident. — Dave Duffey, Outdoor Life, 26 Mar. 2026 And atypical challenges like having her uproariously unfiltered serial criminal of an aunt hiding out in the school library and trying to get Kimberly and her friends involved in her latest fraud scheme. — Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 25 Feb. 2026 Everyone in the break room laughs uproariously. — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025 First the musical is uproariously funny, and O’Brien said its creative team keep adding fresh jokes to the touring show all the time. — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025 Sporadically at first, and then uproariously by the end. — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 6 Aug. 2025 If little else in Jonny Campbell’s film of the 2019 novel by David Koepp is as uproariously funny, there’s a likeably cheesy retro vibe to this sci-fi horror comedy about a mutating fungal virus from space that threatens to escape its containment facility and turn humanity into moldy grenades. — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019

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Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith’s screenplay is littered with exaggerated stereotypes just waiting to be boisterously subverted.

— Ben Travers, IndieWire, 29 June 2026
These movies now add up to a canon greater than the sum of their boisterously funny, deliriously inventive parts.

— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 June 2026

Definition of boisterously

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Tom Cruise sat elbow to elbow with David Beckham; UCLA and Los Angeles Lakers star Kareem Abdul Jabbar got a rousing ovation and Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart was lustily booed.

— Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 13 June 2026
Helen wept quietly, believing her world had come to an end, while Alice, always comfortable with attention, cried more lustily.

— Charlotte Brooks, Big Think, 13 Mar. 2026

Definition of lustily

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Despite that underlying tension, kids play on the street outside while the large family has a dynamic like any other — noisily squabbling, joking, or in the case of the matriarchal grandmother, Mariam (Hiam Abbass), preparing a meal in a kitchen plagued by constant utility outages.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2026
As Lurie was transitioning into the mayor’s office, union workers were noisily picketing outside several of the largest hotels in San Francisco.

— J.D. Morris, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Mar. 2026

Definition of noisily

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On Thursday morning, fat bees perched on black-and-blue sage flowers, and doves loudly fluttered from fruit tree to fruit tree.

— Anne Ewbank, Sacbee.com, 23 July 2026
Advertisement One of the film’s comedic bits is your character and Jake Johnson’s character playing against a team in which both players grunt loudly on the court.

— Sean Gregory, Time, 23 July 2026

Definition of loudly

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Options flows in the stock were resoundingly bullish, with more than 114,000 calls traded versus just under 50,000 puts.

— Oliver Renick, CNBC, 21 July 2026
Nolan also resoundingly highlights the role of women in this epic, who also include briefly Lupita Nyong’o’s Helen and her twin sister Clytemnestra.

— Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 16 July 2026

Definition of resoundingly

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South Florida has a large population of Venezuelan immigrants—a stridently anti-chavista voting bloc that many politicians see as crucial to winning elections.

— Stephania Taladrid, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
Ukraine’s accession process was long stymied by Hungary, under stridently nationalist former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who was considered Russia’s strongest ally in Europe and possible threat to the EU project.

— ABC News, ABC News, 15 June 2026

Definition of stridently

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