hysterical
uncontrollably emotional.
irrational from fear, emotion, or an emotional shock.
Origin of hysterical
1Other words for hysterical
Other words from hysterical
- hys·ter·i·cal·ly, adverb
- o·ver·hys·ter·i·cal, adjective
- post·hys·ter·i·cal, adjective
- sem·i·hys·ter·i·cal, adjective
- un·hys·ter·i·cal, adjective
Words that may be confused with hysterical
- historic, historical, hysterical
Words Nearby hysterical
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How to use hysterical in a sentence
“They treated me like I was being hysterical,” she says, and ordered her to stay off of Google and to stop talking to Collins.
What umbilical cord tests can and can’t tell us about stillbirths | Purbita Saha | July 8, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThe historical—and hysterical—idea that women’s excessive emotions have profound influences on their bodies, and vice versa, is impressed like a photographic negative beneath today’s image of the attention-seeking, hypochondriac female patient.
Medical Myths About Gender Roles Go Back to Ancient Greece. Women Are Still Paying the Price Today | Elinor Cleghorn | June 17, 2021 | TimeCook could not be sure whether Lecointe’s paralysis indicated a terminal stage of scurvy or a hysterical reaction.
Those comics hew toward rather sexist tropes about the hysterical woman.
I remembered my mother, who’d spent so much time in mental hospitals, psychiatric wards, her whole life cycling between being overmedicated, under-medicated, ignored, treated like a hysterical woman who couldn’t care for herself.
I Avoided Facing My Mental Illness for Decades. The Pandemic Changed That | Jaquira Díaz | March 3, 2021 | Time
What follows is hysterical, painful, weird, and strangely touching—a true Festivus for the rest of us.
As a former arts teacher, she feels compelled to help the now-hysterical young boy.
Every night, I speak to the islands of the Caribbean in the language of hysterical storms.
They converted what should have been a long-overdue moral reckoning into a shallow and hysterical ratings bonanza.
But Robin Williams will, sadly, no longer be sending us into hysterical fits of laughter.
Robin Williams, Hollywood’s Grand Jester, Is Dead at 63 | Marlow Stern | August 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMadame Lebrun grew a trifle hysterical; Robert called his brother some sharp, hard names.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate ChopinImpudent and reckless us he had been all his life, he was now more timid and nervous than an hysterical girl.
I know quantities of hysterical European women make fools of themselves out here, but I am not hysterical, I assure you.
Bella Donna | Robert HichensShe snatched them from him, and burst into a fit of hysterical crying, which ended in a faintness almost as of death.
Elster's Folly | Mrs. Henry WoodHis men sprang into the guard-room of the keep, realizing from his almost hysterical manner the urgent need for haste.
St. Martin's Summer | Rafael Sabatini
British Dictionary definitions for hysterical
hysteric
/ (hɪˈstɛrɪkəl) /
of or suggesting hysteria: hysterical cries
suffering from hysteria
informal wildly funny
Derived forms of hysterical
- hysterically, adverb
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