hysterics
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5.9
- noun
- /hɪˈstɛrɪks/
- Informal
:
ataque de histeria
- Carol, you're not prone to hysterics, are you?
- went into hysterics
- break into hysterics
- sent me into hysterics
It it, it sounds like a sitcom level of like hysterics.
- It it, it sounds like a sitcom level of like hysterics.
- It, it sends the media into into hysterics.
- Look at the hysterics the media had when Biden pardoned his son.
- We were just in hysterics because we just got along so well because we weren't in a comedy.
Examples
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Then she had hysterics, but only when she had locked herself in the bathroom.
Fiction book (1990) -
"My child down by the lake in hysterics," her mother was saying.
Fiction book (1993) -
Can you guess who just called me from school in complete hysterics? - Charlie? - What?
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The girl left in hysterics.
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I appreciate how upset you are, but, but this is no reason for hysterics.
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The mother and Linda were still in hysterics on the floor.
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After that, it was a free-for-all; we were in hysterics about everything we passed.
Blog text (2) -
She's in hysterics, but she'll be cool, eventually.
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The kids in the bleachers are in hysterics as Smoochy shakes his body spastically.
Fiction book (2002) -
She called me in hysterics, unable to stop laughing about the joke he told.
Synonyms
82
6.1
An extreme, uncontrolled feeling of fear or excitement
3
9.9
A sudden strong burst of feeling, for example coughing or laughter
Antonyms
How Hysterical
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hysterics comes from the old Greek word hystera, which meant 'womb', because long ago people thought strong emotions came from the womb. So today hysterics means a state of extreme, often uncontrollable emotion like loud crying or laughing.