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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of, characterized by, or arising from hysteria.
  2. adj. Having or prone to having hysterics.
  3. adj. Informal Extremely funny: told a hysterical story.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Same as hysteric, and the more common form.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Of, or arising from hysteria.
  2. adj. Having, or prone to having hysterics.
  3. adj. Provoking uncontrollable laughter.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. colloq. Extremely funny.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. marked by excessive or uncontrollable emotion
  2. adj. characterized by or arising from psychoneurotic hysteria

Etymologies

  1. From hysteric +‎ -al, from Latin hystericus, from Ancient Greek ὑστερικός (husterikos, "suffering in the womb, hysterical"), from ὑστερά (hustera, "womb"). (Wiktionary)

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Words with the same meaning

  1. convulsive
  1. hysteric

equivalents (3)

Other words for ‘hysterical’

  1. agitated
  1. psychoneurotic
  1. neurotic

same context (12)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. frantic
  2. insane
  1. nervous
  2. uncontrollable
  1. shrill
  2. feverish
  1. morbid
  2. foolish
  1. incoherent
  2. helpless
  1. irrational
  2. reckless

rhymes (3)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. clerical
  1. numerical
  1. spherical

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. hysteromania
  2. cachinnation
  3. hystericism
  4. psychanopsia
  1. vaporish
  2. allotriophagy
  3. catalepsy
  4. claustrophobia
  1. comatose
  2. hysterically
  3. hysterogeny
  4. Freud
  1. hysterical
  2. hysteric
  3. hysteriac
  4. hysterism
  1. scream
  2. mother
  3. gushing
  4. hysteroepilepsy
  1. ical
  2. nerve
  3. sentimental
  4. sympathy

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  1. often misspelled
  1. auto-antonym
  1. ten different letters
  1. cvccvcvcvc
  1. fun to say

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  • yaybob I realize that this isn’t a humor site, but I had this material prepared for another purpose, and I thought that I’d share it here. These are three YouTube videos, all pretty funny in my estimation. Hopefully, at least one will be unfamiliar to you. The last two are a little ethnic, but I think – at least I hope - not offensive.

    You likely have always wondered what the hell lyrics Joe Cocker was singing to A Little Help From My Friends at Woodstock, because they sure as hell aren't the ones everybody else is singing. At last a transcript is available. If only John Belushi had lived to see it.

    Continuing in the same vein is this East Indian music video with somebody's interpretation of what the Hindu words sound like in English. This one's a keeper, too. For lack of a better name, here is “My Loony Bun Is Fine, Benny Lava�?

    Everybody likes hymns, and with the holidays fast approaching, what could be more timely and welcome. Here's O-mazing Grace (how sweet the sound!). Nobody's going to ever figure these lyrics out. It's bad from the beginning, but don't quit it early. OG teases us at 1:39 with a taste of what is to come, but he doesn’t really takes it up until 2:08. And stay for the riveting finale, beginning around 3:00! This is truly one of the worst musical performances ever, bar none. Truly awful, but stunningly funny.
    Dec 9, 2008

  • oroboros Funny v. terrified. May 23, 2008

  • kewpid A rather misogynistic term. May 22, 2008

  • thunderfoot Its funny because its uterus. Dec 1, 2006

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