Associations to the word «Hysterical»

Wiktionary

HYSTERICAL, adjective. Of, or arising from hysteria.
HYSTERICAL, adjective. Having, or prone to having hysterics.
HYSTERICAL, adjective. Provoking uncontrollable laughter.

Dictionary definition

HYSTERICAL, adjective. Characterized by or arising from psychoneurotic hysteria; "during hysterical conditions various functions of the human body are disordered"- Morris Fishbein; "hysterical amnesia".
HYSTERICAL, adjective. Marked by excessive or uncontrollable emotion; "hysterical laughter"; "a mob of hysterical vigilantes".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats