hystericaladjective
uk/hɪˈster.ɪ.kəl/us/hɪˈster.ɪ.kəl/C1 unable to control your feelings or behaviour because you are extremely frightened, angry, excited, etc.:
Calm down, you're getting hysterical.
The police were accused of hysterical over-reaction.
hysterical laughter (= uncontrolled laughter)
informal extremely funny:
His last film was hysterical.
More examples
- I suspect the doctor thought I was just another hysterical female, getting all worked up about nothing.
- She rang up in a hysterical state, saying that her husband had slapped her.
- All right, calm down, don't get hysterical. There's a lot of blood, but actually it's not that serious.
- There was a predictably hysterical reaction from the press when the news was announced.
- The victim's wife was hysterical with grief and had to be sedated.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Becoming too excited and easily upset
- ant
- antsy
- at the end of your tether idiom 1
- at the end of your tether
- be in a whirl idiom
- explosive
- high-strung
- highly strung
- hot under the collar idiom
- hyper
- hyperactive
- hysteria
- sensitive
- shock
- squeamishly
- stomach
- tether
- thin-skinned
- touchy
- worked up
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hysterically
adverb uk/hɪˈster.ɪ.kəl.i/us/hɪˈster.ɪ.kəl.i/
She started laughing/crying hysterically.