Definitions for hysteric

hysteric hys·ter·ic

Spelling: [hi-ster-ik]
IPA: /hɪˈstɛr ɪk/

Hysteric is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 315 anagrams from letters in hysteric (cehirsty).

Definitions for hysteric

noun

  1. Usually, hysterics. a fit of uncontrollable laughter or weeping; hysteria.
  2. a person subject to hysteria.

adjective

  1. hysterical.

Origin of hysteric

1650-60; Latin hystericus Greek hysterikós, suffering in the womb, hysterical (reflecting the Greeks' belief that hysteria was peculiar to women and caused by disturbances in the uterus); see

Examples for hysteric

Or, they could distort the contents of the bill and attack anyone who disagreed with them as a legal Luddite and hysteric.

It was succeeded by a quick, hysteric laugh, and then a dead silence.

After that, evidently the first attack of hysteric character followed.

"Git down there, you hysteric son of a gun," he said to the horse.

Gertrude bending over me in hysteric screams—so they told me afterwards.

Miss Corelli's force is hysteric, but it is sometimes very real.

I juggle with temperamental and psychic Twos and experiment in hysteric additions.

In short, he was still perfectly maintaining that biblical "is he a prophet, is he a hysteric" look.

In hysteric inversions of motion is some other part too much stimulated?

Red Jim stumbled to his feet with an inarticulate and hysteric exclamation.

Word Value for hysteric
Scrable

16

Words with friends

15

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