HYSTERICAL


Meaning of HYSTERICAL in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a hysterical giggle (= that someone cannot control )

The children were all in hysterical giggles.

hysterical laughter (= laughter that is out of control because someone is very excited, nervous etc )

She burst into hysterical laughter.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

almost

If Chartres has an atmosphere of almost hysterical ecstasy, then Brigflatts has an air of honest calm and loving peace.

Spanking Lanie caused her to scream and seem almost hysterical .

She felt an almost hysterical desire to scream at them all.

Mum was devastated, almost hysterical .

Rosten's voice was almost hysterical now.

At first Eva and her assistant did not believe it, but the second girl was almost hysterical .

nearly

Otherwise sane men were nearly hysterical trying to get rebels to change their minds.

The diplomatic cables to Washington must have been nearly hysterical with pleas to drop the hunting trip.

Excitement over the Olympics has reached nearly hysterical proportions in the city.

■ NOUN

laughter

Mr Morgan and his organ releasing them into hysterical laughter had anaesthetized the horror of the past.

The sound of hysterical laughter swept through the new arrivals as they looked at each other.

The big problem for anybody watching the opening ceremony must have been suppressing whoops of hysterical laughter .

They made a sound like hysterical laughter as they played their games.

A bubble of hysterical laughter rose to her lips.

woman

The hysterical woman was the middle-class woman of leisure deprived of productive labour and imprisoned in dependence on her family.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Hysterical fans tried to stop Damon's car at the airport.

Hysterical parents were calling the school for details of the accident.

He got a hysterical phone call from his mother in the middle of the night.

It's a hysterical movie.

The crowd went hysterical as Juventus scored in the last minute of the game.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

For over an hour three different nurses told her that she was hysterical .

Gran told her that mum had to go into hospital because she was hysterical !!

I knew I would be hysterical when I heard your voice.

It feels like an all-news network should: instant, informed, urgent without being hysterical .

Mr Morgan and his organ releasing them into hysterical laughter had anaesthetized the horror of the past.

Spanking Lanie caused her to scream and seem almost hysterical .

The people were a little hysterical .

They look like jittery, hysterical little birds crowded together on a power line.

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