Vocabulary Word
Word: hilarity
Definition: boisterous mirth(merriment; laughter); ADJ. hilarious: full of laughter
Definition: boisterous mirth(merriment; laughter); ADJ. hilarious: full of laughter
Sentences Containing 'hilarity'
The hilarity at the association's expense burst all bounds, now.
Around the table reigned that noisy hilarity which usually prevails at such a time among people sufficiently free from the demands of social position not to feel the trammels of etiquette.
``I understand; you must lay in a stock of hilarity.''
They would have talked to me too, but I held back, and moped in my corner; scared by their love-making and hilarity, though it was far from boisterous, and almost wondering that no judgement came upon them for their hardness of heart.
I observed, however, that one of them held somewhat aloof, and though he seemed desirous not to spoil the hilarity of his shipmates by his own sober face, yet upon the whole he refrained from making as much noise as the rest.
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