Another word for hysterical
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- Glaring in or as if in anger, terror, or madness.
- Extreme and passionate in belief or advocacy:
- (poetic) Battered by a storm or storms.
- (figuratively) Beset by adversity or fraught with dissension.
- In a frenzy to do violence or kill:
- In or into a jumbled or confused state:
- In or into an uncontrolled state or a state of extreme activity:
- Having or feeling nervous unease:
- Marked by jittering movements:
- Capable of, having, or dominated by powerful emotions:
- Wrathful by temperament; choleric.
- Marked by strong sexual desire; amorous or lustful.
- Consisting of or containing fire.
- Burning or glowing.
- Using or effected with fire.
- Excessively nervous or excited; agitated.
- Extremely elaborate or ornate; overdone:
- Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid:
- Of or relating to the nerves or nervous system:
- Stemming from or affecting the nerves or nervous system:
- Easily agitated or distressed; high-strung or jumpy.
- Overcome by panic; terrified.
- Filled with passion; fervent:
- Heated to or past the boiling point:
- Very angry or upset; seething.
- Used as an intensive:
- Causing or intending to cause damage, injury, or death, often when involving great force:
- Characterized by or displaying physical violence:
- Caused by unexpected force or injury rather than by natural causes:
- Full of or characterized by extreme anger; raging.
- Full of intensity; energetic or fierce:
- Maddened, driven insane.
- Covered with cracks (generally applied to porcelain).
- simple past tense and past participle of craze
- Acting or done quickly with little or inadequate thought.
- Having or marked by violent force:
- Mentally deranged.
- Possessed by enthusiasm or excitement:
- Immoderately fond; infatuated:
- simple past tense and past participle of madden
- Characterized by violent emotions or actions; tumultuous:
- Of, relating to, or resembling a tempest:
- Being unable to think with clarity or act with understanding and intelligence.
- Lacking logical order or sense:
- Chaotic; jumbled:
- Enraged; infuriated; spitefully or furiously angry.
- simple past tense and past participle of incense
- Causing or accompanied by an uproar:
- Loud and full; boisterous:
- Causing hearty laughter; hilarious:
- Affected with or marked by frenzy; frantic:
- Very active and unpredictable; volatile:
- Remarkable; extraordinary:
- shaken; perturbed; excited
- Impossible to control or govern:
- Angry; resentful:
- Mentally deranged:
- Characteristic of mental derangement:
- Moving rapidly or violently:
- Characterized by disorder, commotion, or unrest:
- Extending unchecked; unrestrained:
- Occurring without restraint and frequently, widely, or menacingly; rife:
- Rearing on the hind legs.
- Present participle of froth.
- The act of something that froths.
- Marked by or having the nature of convulsions.
- Having or producing convulsions.
- simple past tense and past participle of harrow
- Difficult or impossible to control or restrain:
- Possessed with or motivated by excessive, irrational zeal.
- Agitated; excited.
- Owning or mastering something. Used with of :
- Controlled by a spirit, demon, god, or other supernatural force.
- Controlled by a strong inner drive; obsessed:
- Not controlled or held in check; immoderate:
- Uninhibited or unreserved:
- Deeply agitated, as from worry or grief.
- Mentally deranged.
- Excessively excited
- simple past tense and past participle of overexcite
- Having the attention diverted.
- Suffering conflicting emotions; distraught.
- Of or affected by rabies.
- Raging; uncontrollable:
- Extremely zealous or enthusiastic; fanatical:
- Of or relating to emotion:
- Readily affected with or stirred by emotion:
- Arousing or intended to arouse the emotions:
- Relating to, affected by, or having the character of a spasm; convulsive.
- Happening intermittently; fitful:
- Given to sudden outbursts of energy or feeling; excitable.
- Of, relating to, or affected with a neurosis. No longer used in psychiatric diagnosis.
- Overanxious:
- A person suffering from a neurosis. No longer used in psychiatric diagnosis.
- simple past tense and past participle of unnerve
- Pertaining to or suffering from a psychoneurosis.
- Someone suffering from a psychoneurosis.
- Of, suffering from, or characteristic of delirium.
- Marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion; ecstatic:
- Talking or behaving irrationally; wild:
- Exciting admiration:
- Delirious, irrational speech.
- Not under control, discipline, or governance.
- simple past tense and past participle of convulse
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