• Synonyms: hysteric, hysterical
  Meaning: characterized by or arising from psychoneurotic hysteria; "during hysterical conditions various functions of the human body are disordered"- Morris Fishbein; "hysterical amnesia"
• Synonyms: hysterical
  Meaning: marked by excessive or uncontrollable emotion; "hysterical laughter"; "a mob of hysterical vigilantes"

• Dick, despite himself, laughed, but the laugh was hysterical.
• Alyosha told him she had been hysterical, and that she was now, he heard, unconscious and delirious.
• Katerina Ivanovna was pale and terribly fatigued, yet at the same time in a state of hysterical excitement.
• "No, mamma, I won't be that." And she struggled grievously to get the better of the hysterical attack which had overpowered her.
• She felt weak and hysterical. What if she should burst into tears before the whole crowd--before those coldly critical grey eyes?
• Her song, moreover, is interlarded with little hysterical squeaks, as if she were brim-full of some strange joy, and running over.
• "Their dreadful color makes me hysterical," he said to his soldiers, "so if I am to have any peace of mind we must charge the foe and drive them back into the Fog Bank.
• He seemed quite cheerful, as he walked about with his hands in his pockets, chatting with this one and that; it was the false and hysterical gaiety that precedes a final separation.
• I'm king here." At last I must confess my voice suddenly broke in the middle of a vigorous threat. I felt a gust of hysterical petulance, and went aft and stared dismally at nothing.
• She was suffering for her "treachery" at the trial, and Alyosha felt that her conscience was impelling her to confess it to him, to him, Alyosha, with tears and cries and hysterical writhings on the floor.

0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Hamlet, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Martin Luther, License CC BY-SA 4.0