hysterical
adjective/hɪˈstɛrɪkəl/
Frequency rank: #7,852 most common English word
Meaning
affected by or deriving from wildly uncontrolled emotion; extremely funny.
Example sentence
The comedian's performance was so funny that the audience became hysterical.
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