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# hilarious

«hilarious» in Mova's school dictionary: **Extremely funny, making you laugh a lot: a hilarious joke** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Extremely funny, making you laugh a lot: a hilarious joke. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hilarious/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday talk children describe funny films, jokes and friends as hilarious; in stories it shows a very funny scene. Sometimes used with irony: «Oh, hilarious» = not funny at all. Phrases: «absolutely hilarious», «a hilarious story».

### examples

- The clown was hilarious. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hilarious/#x1)
- We watched a hilarious film and couldn't stop laughing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hilarious/#x2)
- My brother told a hilarious joke at dinner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hilarious/#x3)
- «Oh, hilarious,» she said, when he hid her bag — she was not laughing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hilarious/#x4)
- The dog's tricks were hilarious. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hilarious/#x5)
- It was hilarious when the cake slid off the plate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hilarious/#x6)

### note

Stronger than «funny»; do not say «very hilarious» — say «absolutely hilarious». Say «hi-LAIR-ee-us». Noun: hilarity. Slang equivalents: «hysterical», «a scream», «LOL».

### In the corpora

- [«I'm dead» and the skull emoji 💀 are young people's way of saying «this is hilarious».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/45-dead-a-mile-long-and-everyone-more-everyday-hyperbole/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hilarious» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hilarious/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.