hysterical synonyms

hysterical

modif.

convulsed, uncontrolled, raving, delirious, wildly emotional, psychoneurotic, unnerved, neurotic, resembling hysteria, spasmodic, emotional, rabid, emotionally disordered, distracted, morbidly excited, overexcited, fuming, distraught, unrestrained, possessed, wrought-up, fanatical, irrepressible, harrowed, convulsive, carried away, frothing, seething, beside oneself, rampant, out of one's wits, turbulent, mad, affected with hysteria, suffering from hysteria, uncontrollable, agitated, raging, frenzied, uproarious, incensed, confused, tempestuous, maddened, blazing, crazy, impetuous, crazed, furious, violent, boiling, impassioned, panic-stricken, nervous, vehement, overwrought, fiery, passionate, cracked wide open*, in a frazzle*, in a fit*, jittery*, amuck*, tempest-tossed*, wild-eyed*, on a laughing jag*, on a crying jag*; see also angry, excited, frantic, troubled 1.

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