Definitions for hysterics

hysterics hys·ter·ic

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

Hysterics is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 382 anagrams from letters in hysterics (cehirssty).

Definitions for hysterics

noun

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

adjective

  1. hysterical.
  2. hysterical.

Origin of hysterics

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 hysterics

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.

The great specialist had admitted nerves; hysterics had no standing with him.

Back in 2007, a bubbly Diaz showed Jay Leno her burping skills on late-night TV and then went into hysterics.

“I have a horror of hysterics or sentimentality,” he explained.

The Newsroom transforms its female characters into hysterics and fools.

Vice was like hysterics—the more kindness you showed the worse grew the patient!

And as soon as James yelled “cut,” they both burst into hysterics.

Think of Mrs M. falling into hysterics about a Captain Hope!

The landlady was already in hysterics; the Vogt girls were pale but plucky.

Though she prefers the phrase “going away” to the word “jail,” which sent her into hysterics in a recent episode.

He actually had what in these days we call a fit of hysterics.

Word Value for hysterics
Scrable

17

Words with friends

16

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