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

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope