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单词 hysteric
释义

hysteric

/hɪˈstɛrɪk /
noun
1 (hysterics) informal A wildly emotional and exaggerated reaction: the widow had hysterics and the inquest was wrapped up quickly...
  • She got a second Oscar nod, as Best Supporting Actress, for her wildly funny hysterics in Allen's Husbands and Wives.
  • But his mission is complicated by Louis' quirks and emotional hysterics.
  • It would simply be helpful if the neighbours could resign themselves to an approximately similar exercise, with fewer tantrums and hysterics.

Synonyms

hysteria, wildness, feverishness, irrationality, frenzy, loss of control, loss of reason;
neurosis, delirium, derangement, mania, distress, mental distress
British informal the screaming abdabs/habdabs
1.1Uncontrollable laughter: they began to giggle and fled upstairs in hysterics...
  • I was laughing in hysterics, yet utterly disgusted!
  • Like a woman loosing all sanity, I began to laugh in hysterics.
  • Kayla laughed in hysterics as her skates slid up under her and she landed on her bottom.

Synonyms

fits of laughter, gales of laughter, peals of laughter, uncontrollable laughter, convulsions, fits, guffawing, howling
informal stitches, hooting
rare cachinnation
2A person suffering from hysteria.A lot of people accused him of being a hysteric, a hypochondriac, a man who exploited death, kind of a Cassandra....
  • A hysteric who seems paraplegic behaves as if he has forgotten that he has legs; he has lost the mental representation of a part of his body.
  • As a hysteric, she highlights the insights that psychoanalysis can offer - and its shortcomings - in understanding black female subjectivity.
adjective
another term for hysterical (sense 2).Kal's eyes widened as he came to a pause before bursting into a series of hysteric laughter....
  • He heard Sora's mocking, hysteric laughter in his ear.
  • He said with a sly grin as Emerald busted out into hysteric laughter.

Origin

Mid 17th century (as an adjective): via Latin from Greek husterikos 'of the womb', from hustera 'womb' (hysteria being thought to be specific to women and associated with the womb).

Rhymes

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