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Etymology edit

hysteri +‎ -sk

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hysterisk (neuter hysterisk, plural and definite singular attributive hysteriske)

  1. (medicine, obsolete) suffering from hysteria
  2. highly unstable and irrational; maniacal; crazed
    Han blev hysterisk da han hørte om sin kones død.
    He went into a frenzy when he heard of his wife's death.

Norwegian Bokmål edit

Adjective edit

hysterisk (neuter singular hysterisk, definite singular and plural hysteriske)

  1. hysterical
  2. (as an adverb) hysterically

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Norwegian Nynorsk edit

Adjective edit

hysterisk (neuter singular hysterisk, definite singular and plural hysteriske)

  1. hysterical

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Swedish edit

Adjective edit

hysterisk (not comparable)

  1. hysterical (relating to hysteria)
  2. hysterical ((often) highly (and overly) emotional)

Usage notes edit

Not used in the sense of hilarious.

Declension edit

Inflection of hysterisk
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular hysterisk
Neuter singular hysteriskt
Plural hysteriska
Masculine plural3 hysteriske
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 hysteriske
All hysteriska
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
3) Dated or archaic

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