a. [f. UPROAR sb.]
1. Making, or given to making, an uproar.
1819. Blackw. Mag., IV. 717. The trio … is altogether so cheerful…, so uproarious, if we may be allowed the expression.
1858. Doran, Crt. Fools, 101. The bachelor and uproarious Court of William Rufus.
1871. Jowett, Plato, I. 182. A somewhat uproarious young man.
2. Characterized by uproar; noisy.
1849. Mrs. Carlyle, Lett. (1882), II. 42. We dined. After that, very youthful and uproarious sports till twelve!
1874. Green, Short Hist., viii. § 7. 531. The King … paused … at Oxford, where he was received with uproarious welcome.
1885. Manch. Exam., 10 Nov., 4/7. The proceedings were very uproarious.
3. fig. Disordered, unkempt.
1836. Jas. Grant, Random Recoll. Ho. Lords, xiv. 316. The aproarious condition of his dark grey hair.
Hence Uproariously adv., -ness.
1811. Morn. Chron., 9 Oct., 3/3. Bob Gregson tipped his customers a rum chaunt about the late mill, and proposed the health of Mr. John Jockson, which was uproariously drunk with three.
1838. Dickens, O. Twist, ix. At which Mr. Charles Bates laughed *uproariously.
1871. L. Stephen, Playgr. Eur., iii. 147. We should … have been uproariously triumphant over our victory.
1847. L. Hunt, Men, Women, & B., II. xi. 265. His delight at having his head patted by Lord Clarendon, and his honest *uproariousness.
1898. ‘H. S. Merriman,’ Roden’s Corner, xxxii. 340. In jail … for intoxication and uproariousness.
