Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, characterized by, or arising from hysteria.
- adj. Having or prone to having hysterics.
- adj. Informal Extremely funny: told a hysterical story.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Same as hysteric, and the more common form.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of, or arising from hysteria.
- adj. Having, or prone to having hysterics.
- adj. Provoking uncontrollable laughter.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Extremely funny.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. marked by excessive or uncontrollable emotion
- adj. characterized by or arising from psychoneurotic hysteria
Examples
“Some of the little folks we watch grow up to be young women, and occasionally one of them gets nervous, what we call hysterical, and then that girl will begin to play all sorts of pranks, -- to lie and cheat, perhaps, in the most unaccountable way, so that she might seem to a minister a good example of total depravity.”
“The mental benefits to children of all ages through the contact with animals by far exceed the dangers of what I call a hysterical reaction.”
“I find the term hysterical, and personally, I don’t think we use it nearly enough here in the colonies.”
“You should have inserted a pause right there to give the audience time to collapse in hysterical laughter.”
“I was at the airport, in hysterical tears, heartbroken, knowing that she was just too sick to make it through my 20 hour plane ride.”
“Enjoy the crowned one†™ s antics in hysterical tales as he gets mixed up with weird science experiments, football foul-ups, and his cousin, Souphead!”
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“Stranger still, the root of hysterical is the same as the root of hysterectomy: huster, from the Greek, for womb.”
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“Following thanks to Janet Reid, just collapsed in hysterical laughter from the start.”
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“Only slightly less hysterical is his description of why the city has an urban renewal agency:”
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“As the anchor was hanging up on her, Brenda was in hysterical tears and pleading for her life.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hysterical’.
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Bonkers
List for old and new terms and phrases meaning crazy, nuts, batty, prone to extreme nervousness, etc.
bonkers, crazy, nuts, batty, batchy, bats in the belfry, scatty, crackers, windy, gone crackers, cracked, dingo and 92 more...
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Eric List
This list includes words with 'eric' in them.
hysterical, esoteric, generic, american, cleric, tumeric, america, maverick
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