hilarious

adj

1. Very funny; causing great merriment and laughter.

   “a hilarious joke”

   “Do you like Monty Python? I think they're hilarious.”

2. Full of hilarity; merry.

   “Cold Doctor Pell here refused a very considerable fee. He could on occasion behave handsomely; but I can't learn that blustering, hilarious Doctor Rogerson ever refused his.”

   “In order to turn the minds of hilarious guests to seriousness, they would start singing a responsive song, the subject of which was death and the earnestness of life.”

   “Rounding up the animals in the misty paddocks, with the blackbirds singing as the morning whitened, he felt hilarious, light-headed. He'd clap the cows on their rumps and shout "Come along, there! Come along there, me Irish darlint."”