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unable to control your emotions or behavior because you are very frightened, excited, etc.: Calm down, you’re getting hysterical. She broke into hysterical laughter (= laughter that is uncontrollable). infml That joke was hysterical (= extremely amusing).
The meaning of HYSTERICAL is of, relating to, or marked by hysteria. How to use hysterical in a sentence.
The term hysterical, applied to an individual, can mean that they are emotional, irrationally upset, or frenzied. When applied to a situation not involving panic, hysteria means that that situation is uncontrollably amusing – the connotation being that it invokes hysterical laughter.
Hysterical means "marked by uncontrollable, extreme emotion." If your favorite sports team wins a championship, you might get hysterical and start weeping and screaming all at once.
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. of, relating to, or characterized by hysteria: hysterical psychosis.
If you describe something or someone as hysterical, you think that they are very funny and they make you laugh a lot. [informal] Paul Mazursky was Master of Ceremonies, and he was pretty hysterical. hysterically adverb [ADVERB adjective] It wasn't supposed to be a comedy but I found it hysterically funny.
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. of, relating to, or characterized by hysteria: hysterical psychosis. causing hysteria.
adjective. /hɪˈsterɪkl/ in a state of extreme excitement, and crying, laughing, etc. without any control. hysterical screams. a hysterical giggle. He became almost hysterical when I told him. Let's not get hysterical. (disapproving) He thought I was being a hysterical female. Extra Examples. Oxford Collocations Dictionary.
If someone is hysterical, they cannot control their feelings or behaviour because they are extremely frightened, angry, excited, etc.: hysterical laughter. As soon as Wendy saw the blood, she became hysterical.
1 in a state of extreme excitement, and crying, laughing, etc. in an uncontrolled way hysterical screams a hysterical giggle He became almost hysterical when I told him. Let's not get hysterical. (disapproving) He thought I was being a hysterical female.
