Hysterical

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of, characterized by, or arising from hysteria.
  • adj. Having or prone to having hysterics.
  • adj. Informal Extremely funny: told a hysterical story.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of, or arising from hysteria.
  • adj. Having, or prone to having hysterics.
  • adj. Provoking uncontrollable laughter.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Extremely funny.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Same as hysteric, and the more common form.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. marked by excessive or uncontrollable emotion
  • adj. characterized by or arising from psychoneurotic hysteria
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    convulsive    hysteric   
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