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The moment funny stops being an adjective and becomes a weather event.
means Extreme, often uncontrollable amusement or laughter — the state of finding something riotously funny.
from From Latin hilaritas, 'cheerfulness,' rooted in hilaris, 'cheerful,' which traces back to Greek hilaros, meaning glad or merry. The Greek root is thought to connect to a deeper Indo-European base meaning 'to be glad' or 'to rejoice' — the same ancient cheerfulness that also gave English the word 'hilarious.' It entered English in the 1600s as a fairly formal, almost clinical term for cheerfulness before drifting toward its modern sense of helpless, overflowing laughter.
- root word
- from greek hilaros, meaning cheerful
- legal fun fact
- ensues in headlines right before lawsuits
- key feature
- contagious before the joke even lands