Meaning of hysterically in English:
hysterically
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adverb
1With wildly uncontrolled emotion.
‘I started laughing hysterically’- ‘my mother was crying hysterically’
- ‘I got out of bed, sobbing hysterically.’
- ‘One night, they hear the teacher laughing hysterically.’
- ‘Turning round, I saw another of my neighbours bent over and giggling hysterically.’
- ‘I tried to leave the room, and shrieked hysterically when either of them attempted to touch my face.’
- ‘He did not notice the little kid that ran out of the back crying and screaming hysterically.’
- ‘Danny was weeping hysterically.’
- ‘I could hear Chris yelling hysterically in the background.’
- ‘I could hear an officer shouting hysterically in a loudspeaker.’
- ‘Many people have reacted hysterically to the idea of further cuts.’
- ‘Governments will want to ensure that the public does not behave hysterically.’
- 1.1 informal as submodifier Used to emphasize how funny something is.
- ‘a hysterically funny show’
- ‘your website is hysterically amusing’
- ‘There are highlights in the film, including the hysterically funny mad genius director.’
- ‘Her character is hysterically funny.’
- ‘The gags, if thin on the ground, are hysterically funny.’
- ‘The wealthy and sadistic landowner is a caricature, complete with a clipped upper-class accent and hysterically pompous manner.’
- ‘I was actually watching the start of one of the most hysterically goofy horror movies ever captured on celluloid.’
- ‘She does a hysterically great job as the doting wife.’
- ‘His cheesy dramatic delivery is both moving and hysterically entertaining.’
- ‘It was such a bad joke that it was hysterically funny.’
- ‘People were watching something that was absolutely mischievous and silly and wonderfully dumb, but hysterically funny.’
- ‘He's got no problem devoting entire sequences of his film, including the hysterically inappropriate and silly ending, to music montages played out over entire songs.’
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