hysterical
/hɪˈsterɪkəl/ adjectiveDefinition
NO CONTROL › 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.
FUNNY informal › extremely funny
hysterically adverb › They all thought it was hysterically funny.(Definition of hysterical adjective from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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