hysterisk

Danish

Etymology

hysteri +‎ -sk

Adjective

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

Adjective

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

  1. hysterical
  2. (as an adverb) hysterically

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

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

  1. hysterical

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Swedish

Adjective

hysterisk (not comparable)

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

Usage notes

Not used in the sense of hilarious.

Declension
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

References
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