hysterical
形容词 adj.
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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Of, or arising from hysteria.
— Henrietta gasped for breath; but she swallowed down the hysterical emotion, and signed with her hand for Walter to go on.
- Having, or prone to having hysterics.
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Provoking uncontrollable laughter.
— She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.
词汇关系
词源
From hysteric + -al, from Latin hystericus, from Ancient Greek ὑστερικός (husterikós, “suffering in the womb, hysterical”), from ῠ̔στέρᾱ (hŭstérā, “womb”).
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