Definitions
Extremely emotional, frantic, or uncontrollably funny.
Word origin
From hysteric + -al, from Latin hystericus, from Ancient Greek ὑστερικός (husterikós, “suffering in the womb, hysterical”), from ῠ̔στέρᾱ (hŭstérā, “womb”).
Used in a sentence
“Henrietta gasped for breath; but she swallowed down the hysterical emotion, and signed with her hand for Walter to go on.”
“An event of this nature, a marriage, or a refusal, or a proposal, thrills through a whole household of women, and sets all their hysterical sympathies at work.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Wildly emotional”10 letters
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