Word Meanings - UPROARIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Making, or accompanied by, uproar, or noise and tumult; as, uproarious merriment. -- Up*roar"i*ous*ly, adv. -- Up*roar"i*ous*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of UPROARIOUS)

• Obstreperous
• Noisy
• uproarious
• clamorous
• rattling

Related words: (words related to UPROARIOUS)

• RATTLESNAKE
  Any one of several species of venomous American snakes belonging to the genera Crotalus and Caudisona, or Sistrurus. They have a series of horny interlocking joints at the end of the tail which make a sharp ratting sound when shaken. The common
• CLAMOROUS
  Speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud; turbulent. "My young ones were clamorous for a morning's excursion." Southey. -- Clam"or*ous*ly, adv. -- Clam"or*ous*ness,
• UPROARIOUS
  Making, or accompanied by, uproar, or noise and tumult; as, uproarious merriment. -- Up*roar"i*ous*ly, adv. -- Up*roar"i*ous*ness, n.
• RATTLETRAP
  Any machine or vehicle that does not run smoothly. A. Trollope.
• RATTLE
  1. To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter. And the rude hail in rattling tempest forms. Addison. 'T was but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er
• RATTLEWINGS
  The golden-eye.
• RATTLEWEED
  Any plant of the genus Astragalus. See Milk vetch.
• NOISY
  1. Making a noise, esp. a loud sound; clamorous; vociferous; turbulent; boisterous; as, the noisy crowd. 2. Full of noise. "The noisy town." Dryden.
• RATTLE-HEADED
  Noisy; giddy; unsteady.
• RATTLEBOX
  1. A toy that makes a rattle sound; a rattle. An American herb , the seeds of which, when ripe, rattle in the inflated pod. Any species of Crotalaria, a genus of yellow-flowered herbs, with inflated, many-seeded pods.
• RATTLEWORT
  See RATTLEBOX
• RATTLEMOUSE
  A bat. Puttenham.
• RATTLE-BRAINED
  Giddy; rattle-headed.
• OBSTREPEROUS
  Attended by, or making, a loud and tumultuous noise; clamorous; noisy; vociferous. "The obstreperous city." Wordsworth. "Obstreperous approbation." Addison. Beating the air with their obstreperous beaks. B. Jonson. -- Ob*strep"er*ous*ly, adv. --
• RATTLEPATE
  A rattlehead. C. Kingsley.
• RATTLINGS
  Ratlines.
• RATTLE-PATED
  Rattle-headed. "A noisy, rattle-pated fellow." W. Irving.
• RATTLEHEAD
  An empty, noisy talker.
• RATTLER
  One who, or that which, rattles.
• PRATTLE
  To talk much and idly; to prate; hence, to talk lightly and artlessly, like a child; to utter child's talk. (more info) Etym:
• BERATTLE
  To make rattle; to scold vociferously; to cry down. Shak.