Crossword clue
Uproar crossword clue
7 words in our dictionary can answer the crossword clue "uproar", from as short as 6 letters up to 14, grouped below by the length of your slot.
Written by Blake Boege
Answers by length
Count your squares, then read one row. The shortest thing that fits is HUBBUB at 6; the longest is TUMULTUOUSNESS at 14.
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What this list looks like
Some of these are words for the clue and some are instances of it: 6 of the first kind, 1 of the second.
Which one does the setter mean?
Six squares is HUBBUB or TUMULT and the crossings decide. If you have three or four squares, note that the very common short answers to this clue, DIN and ADO and RIOT, are not below: WordNet does not file them under uproar, and this page does not add words it cannot source.
How these differ
HUBBUB and TUMULT both mean a confused din made by many people, HUBBUB probably from Irish and slightly the more chaotic of the two. BROUHAHA implies fuss and publicity more than real anger. COMBUSTION is an old figurative use, a commotion described as a burning, which survives now only in puzzles. GARBOIL is Elizabethan and appears in Shakespeare. KATZENJAMMER is German for cats wailing and covers both the din and the hangover after it.
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Where these answers come from
This is a dictionary answering a question, not a copied answer key. Every word above is recorded by WordNet as meaning “uproar” or as naming a kind of it, and each one is in the 173,000-wordlist this site searches. Moby Thesaurus lists 4 of them too. We hold no newspaper's answer key and reproduce no published crossword.
Common questions
- What is the answer to the crossword clue "uproar"?
- There is more than one. 7 words in our dictionary fit this clue, and which one a puzzle wants depends on the length of the slot and the crossing letters. Six squares is HUBBUB or TUMULT and the crossings decide. If you have three or four squares, note that the very common short answers to this clue, DIN and ADO and RIOT, are not below: WordNet does not file them under uproar, and this page does not add words it cannot source.
- How many letters is the answer to "uproar"?
- Anything from 6 to 14. The length with the most candidates is 6. Count the squares in your grid and read only that row of the table.
- How reliable are these answers?
- 4 of the 7 appear in two independently compiled reference works, WordNet and Moby Thesaurus, rather than one. All of them are in the 173,000-word dictionary this site searches. None of them comes from any published puzzle.