All 6 Uses
hysteria
in
Beautiful Creatures
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- So I drove the Sisters, who were completely hysterical, and Harlon James, who probably wished he was dead, to Dean Wilks' place in their 1964 Cadillac.†
p. 88.6hysterical = exceedingly funny (resulting in uncontrollable laughter); or exhibiting excessive, uncontrollable emotion
- She was hysterical, and every few seconds she was wracked with a fit of coughing, choking on both the smoke and her tears.†
p. 100.6 *
- She was hysterical.†
p. 242.1
- Del broke the silence, hysterical.†
p. 266.5
- Marian's truck was parked at the curb, not ten feet from the Gatlin Historical Society, or, as my mom and Marian liked to say, the Gatlin Hysterical Society.†
p. 300.5
- Lena's voice in my head was bordering on hysterical.†
p. 397.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(hysteria) a state of excessive, uncontrollable emotionIn addition to being the adjective form of hysteria, the form hysterical can also indicate that something is exceedingly funny (leading to uncontrollable laughter)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)