adjective. Laughing or crying for a prolonged period of time.

adjective. Extremely funny.

adjective. Of, characterized by, or arising from hysteria. No longer in clinical use.

Same as hysteric, and the more common form.

adjective. Extremely funny.

adjective. Of, or arising from hysteria.

adjective. Having, or prone to having hysterics.

adjective. Provoking uncontrollable laughter.

adjective. marked by excessive or uncontrollable emotion

adjective. characterized by or arising from psychoneurotic hysteria

"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."

agitated  neurotic  psychoneurotic  

hysteria  hysteric  hysterics  

clerical  numerical  spherical  

feverish  foolish  frantic  helpless  incoherent  

abandoned  amok  at fever pitch  bellowing  berserk