Hysterical synonyms
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Part of speech:
Deeply hurt, saddened, or worried; distressed.
Not controlled or held in check; immoderate:
Enraged; infuriated; spitefully or furiously angry.
Of, having the nature of, like, or characterized by a spasm or spasms; sudden, violent, and temporary; fitful; intermittent
Agitated; excited.
morbidly excited
Excessively excited
That fumes
Possessed with or motivated by excessive, irrational zeal.
Not containable or controllable.
Spreading unchecked; widespread; rife
out of one's wits
Violently agitated; tumultuous
Wildly excited or disorderly; frenzied; frantic
affected with hysteria
suffering from hysteria
Not able to be controlled, contained or governed.
The definition of agitated is someone who is very distressed or troubled.
Remarkable; extraordinary:
Loud and boisterous, as laughter
Being unable to think with clarity or act with understanding and intelligence.
The definition of tempestuous is something very stormy or characterized by great conflict.
(Slang, of a person) Sexually attractive.
Characterized by sudden and violent force.
Covered with cracks (generally applied to porcelain).
Very great; intense
Vivid, as in brightness or saturation:
(Of the weather, hyperbolic) Very hot.
Overcome by panic; terrified.
Characterized by or showing emotional tension, restlessness, agitation, etc.
Showing strong feelings; passionate; forceful or intense.
The definition of overwrought is overcome with emotion or in a state of high excitement and anxiety, or a creative work that is too elaborate and overdone.
Characterized by strong emotion; ardent; spirited
Readily aroused to sexual activity; sensual
cracked wide open
in a frazzle
in a fit
(Informal) Having the jitters
Crazed with murderous frenzy:
(Poetic) Battered by a storm or storms.
Glaring in or as if in anger, terror, or madness.
on a laughing jag
on a crying jag
angry (related)
(Chiefly New England & Midland US) Inflamed and painful:
frantic (related)
The definition of frantic is being overcome or wild with emotion or need for action or something done with desperation or in a hurried manner.
troubled (related)
Characterized by unrest, esp. social unrest
Mentally or emotionally upset; deranged:
(Obs.) Of or fit for comedy
Readily affected with or stirred by emotion:
Making or given to making amusing jokes or witticisms:
Exaggeratedly emotional or sentimental.
overemotional
Showing too much emotion.
Exciting admiration:
Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered.
calm (antonym)
Not agitated or excited; tranquil
controlled (antonym)
Inhibited or restrained in one's words and actions.
serene (antonym)
Unaffected by disturbance; calm or peaceful:
hysteric
Marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion; ecstatic:
wildly emotional
Pertaining to or suffering from a psychoneurosis.
Relating to or affected with a neurosis. No longer used in psychiatric diagnosis.
resembling hysteria
The definition of rabid is having rabies, being violent or uncontrollable, or fanatical in a belief.
emotionally disordered
Having, producing, or marked by convulsions
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