hilarious vs wry

hilarious

adj
  • Very funny; causing great merriment and laughter. 

  • Full of hilarity; merry. 

wry

adj
  • Dryly humorous; sardonic or bitterly ironic. 

  • Deviating from the right direction; misdirected; out of place. 

  • Turned away, contorted (of the face or body). 

  • Twisted, bent, crooked. 

noun
  • Distortion. 

verb
  • To twist or contort (the body, face, etc.). 

How often have the words hilarious and wry occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )