Adjective
- 1. hysteric, hysterical, neurotic (vs. unneurotic), psychoneurotic
- usage: characterized by or arising from psychoneurotic hysteria; "during hysterical conditions various functions of the human body are disordered"- Morris Fishbein; "hysterical amnesia"
- 2. hysterical, agitated (vs. unagitated)
- usage: marked by excessive or uncontrollable emotion; "hysterical laughter"; "a mob of hysterical vigilantes"
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