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hysterisk

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Danish

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Etymology

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hysteri +‎ -sk

Adjective

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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

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Adjective

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

  1. hysterical
  2. (as an adverb) hysterically
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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Adjective

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

  1. hysterical
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Swedish

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Adjective

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hysterisk (not comparable)

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

Usage notes

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Not used in the sense of hilarious.

Declension

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Inflection of hysterisk
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular hysterisk
neuter singular hysteriskt
plural hysteriska
masculine plural2 hysteriske
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 hysteriske
all hysteriska

1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

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