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hysterical

[ hi-ster-i-kuhl ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

uncontrollably emotional.
irrational from fear, emotion, or an emotional shock.
causing unrestrained laughter; very funny:
Oh, that joke is hysterical!
Synonyms: ludicrous, laughable, uproarious, hilarious
Psychoanalysis, Psychiatry.
1. of, relating to, or characterized by hysteria:
  hysterical psychosis.
2. causing hysteria.
3. experiencing or subject to hysteria:
  hysterical patients.

hysterical

/ hɪˈstɛrɪkəl /

First recorded in 1605–15; from Latin hysteric(us) hysteric + -al ¹

What follows is hysterical, painful, weird, and strangely touching—a true Festivus for the rest of us.

As a former arts teacher, she feels compelled to help the now-hysterical young boy.

Every night, I speak to the islands of the Caribbean in the language of hysterical storms.

They converted what should have been a long-overdue moral reckoning into a shallow and hysterical ratings bonanza.

But Robin Williams will, sadly, no longer be sending us into hysterical fits of laughter.

Madame Lebrun grew a trifle hysterical; Robert called his brother some sharp, hard names.

Impudent and reckless us he had been all his life, he was now more timid and nervous than an hysterical girl.

I know quantities of hysterical European women make fools of themselves out here, but I am not hysterical, I assure you.

She snatched them from him, and burst into a fit of hysterical crying, which ended in a faintness almost as of death.

His men sprang into the guard-room of the keep, realizing from his almost hysterical manner the urgent need for haste.

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