What is "hysterical" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does hysterical mean in English? Meaning of hysterical definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "hysterical" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "hysterical": characterized by or arising from psychoneurotic hysteria

Adjective

  • Meaning: characterized by or arising from psychoneurotic hysteria
  • Example: during hysterical conditions various functions of the human body are disordered hysterical amnesia
  • Synonyms: hysteric hysterical
  • Similar: neurotic psychoneurotic
  • Meaning of "hysterical": marked by excessive or uncontrollable emotion

    Adjective

  • Meaning: marked by excessive or uncontrollable emotion
  • Example: hysterical laughter a mob of hysterical vigilantes
  • Synonyms: hysterical
  • Similar: agitated
  • Adjective: Of, or arising from hysteria.Having, or prone to having hysterics.Provoking uncontrollable laughter. 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 2, The Mirror and the Lamp[1]: 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.1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 2, The Mirror and the Lamp[1]: 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.
  • Synonyms:

    crazy, passionate, frenzied, impassioned, vehement, emotional, furious, violent, frantic, nervous, agitated, neurotic, distraught, overwrought, uncontrollable, mad, berserk, beside oneself, blazing, crazed, delirious, distracted, fiery, impetuous, incensed, irrepressible, panic-stricken, possessed, rabid, raging, rampant, raving, spasmodic, tempestuous, turbulent, uncontrolled, unrestrained, uproarious, wild, carried away, convulsive, fuming, in a fit, maddened, seething, unnerved, worked up,

    Antonyms:

    sane, indifferent, apathetic, pleased, peaceful, collected, serene, balanced, reasonable, cool, unenthusiastic, unexcited, happy, calm, controlled, mild, moderate, unpassionate,

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    hysterical in English: hysterical
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