Comical vs Hysterical - What's the difference?
comical | hysterical |
(archaic) Originally, relating to comedy.
Being funny, whimsically amusing.
Being laughable, ridiculous.
Of, or arising from hysteria.
Having, or prone to having hysterics.
Provoking uncontrollable laughter.
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As adjectives the difference between comical and hysterical
is that comical is (archaic) originally, relating to comedy while hysterical is of, or arising from hysteria.comical
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It was a comical performance
- The tutor cruelly excelled in comical scoldings
- What a comical error!
Synonyms
* See also * (comedy) comic, comedicDerived terms
* comicality * comicallySee also
* comichysterical
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.}}