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Definition: Hysteric |
HystericAdjective1. Characterized by or arising from psychoneurotic hysteria; "during hysterical conditions various functions of the human body are disordered"- Morris Fishbein; "hysterical amnesia". Noun1. A person suffering from hysteria. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "hysteric" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references) |
Synonym: HystericSynonym: hysterical (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Violence | Turbulent; disorderly; blustering, raging; Verb: troublous, riotous; tumultuary, tumultuous; obstreperous, uproarious; extravagant; unmitigated; ravening, inextinguishable, tameless; frenzied; (insane). desperate; (rash); infuriate, furious, outrageous, frantic, hysteric, in hysterics. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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| ""Poor Rat" 1" by Tina Lorien Commentary: "Tonight hanging my laundry - I got involved in a drama - as my cat was after this rat baby - now I am a hysteric afraid of rat - person . - but I grabbed my camera - & got as close as I dared - (which wasnt very close)....... In the end I almost felt sor" |
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| "Hysteric" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hysteric" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 11 | 106,044 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hysteric blue | 87 |
hysteric | 40 |
glamour hysteric | 32 |
hysteric mini | 21 |
hysteric japan | 4 |
clothing hysteric | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "hysteric"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | histerik (hysterics). (various references) | |
Arabic | هستيري (hysterical). (various references) | |
Danish | hysteriske dermatoser (hysteric dermatosis), hysterisk blepharospasme (hysteric blepharospasm), copiopia hysterica (asthenopia, hysteric asthenopia). (various references) | |
Dutch | hysterisch blefarospasme (hysteric blepharospasm), copiopia hysterica (asthenopia, hysteric asthenopia). (various references) | |
Finnish | hysteerinen. (various references) | |
French | hystérique (hysterical). (various references) | |
German | hysterisch (hysterical). (various references) | |
Greek | υστερικός βλεφαρόσπασμος (hysteric blepharospasm), υστερική ασθενοπία (asthenopia, hysteric asthenopia). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hisztérikus (hysterical). (various references) | |
Italian | isterico (hysterical). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 素っ頓狂 (harum-scarum, in disarray, wild), ヒステリー性格 (backside, be a hit, buttocks, hickory, hip cut, hip pad, hipbone skirt, hip-hop, hippie style, hippy, hips, hip-up girdle, Hispanic, hiss noise, histogram, history, hit, hit chart, hit man, hit parade, hit song, hit-and-run, hitch-hike, Hitler, hitting, hysterical personality, safe hit, success). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | すっとんきょう (harum-scarum, in disarray, wild), ヒステリック . (various references) | |
Norwegian | hysterisk person. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ysterichay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | histrico (hysterical). (various references) | |
Romanian | isterie (hysteria), isteric (hysterical, hysterically, panic stricken), acces de nervi (the needle). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | histerik, histerična osoba. (various references) | |
Spanish | histerico, histérico (hyper, hysterical). (various references) | |
Swedish | hysterisk (hysterical), hysteriker. (various references) | |
Thai | คนที่เป็นโรคฮิสทีเรีย. (various references) | |
Turkish | sinir hastası kimse, isterik (hysterical), isteri hastası. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | істеричний (hysterical), істерик. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "hysteric": hysterical, hysterically, hysterics. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "hysteric": antihysteric. (additional references) | |
Words containing "hysteric": antihysterics, nonhysterical, unhysterical, unhysterically. (additional references) | |
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"Hysteric" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bystrica, hyeteric, hyster, hysteres, hysterica, hysterid, hysteris, hystrix. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "hysteric" (pronounced hi'ste"rik) |
| 5 | -t e" r i k | esoteric, mesenteric. |
| 4 | -e" r i k | alphanumeric, atmospheric, cleric, Derrick, generic, ionospheric, numeric. |
| 3 | -r i k | anthropocentric, Baldric, barbaric, barometric, boric, caloric, choric, citric, concentric, dissymmetric, eccentric, econometric, egocentric, electric, ethnocentric, euphoric, fabric, gastric, geocentric, geometric, geriatric, gravimetric, hemispheric, historic, hydroelectric, hyperbaric, lyric, mercuric, meteoric, metric, nitric, obstetric, optometric, parametric, pediatric, photoelectric, pinprick, prehistoric, psychiatric, pyrrhic, rubric, satiric, sophomoric, stearic, stratospheric, sulfuric, tantric, vampiric, vitric. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-h-i-r-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: christy, cithers, richest. | |
-2 letters: cherts, cherty, chesty, citers, cither, ethics, itches, riches, scythe, shirty, steric, theirs, thrice, thyrse, thyrsi, trices, yirths. | |
-3 letters: cesti, chert, chest, chits, cires, citer, cites, crest, cries, ethic, heirs, heist, hires, itchy, ither, recti, retch, rices, rites, shier, shire, shirt, shyer, stich, techy, their, tiers, tires, treys, trice, tries. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-h-i-r-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: chemistry, hysterics, stitchery. | |
+2 letters: chrysolite, chrysotile, eurythmics, hypocrites, hysteretic, hysterical, sphericity, strychnine. | |
+3 letters: chrysolites, chrysotiles, erythristic, eurhythmics, hyperstatic, hypsometric, mythicizers, strychnines, trichogynes. | |
+4 letters: antihysteric, biochemistry, geochemistry, hyperactives, hypercritics, hyperostotic, hyperplastic, hypersthenic, hysterically, interpsychic, phenocrystic, phylacteries, psychiatries, psychometric, pyrotechnics, pyrotechnist, synchroneity, unhysterical. | |
+5 letters: antihysterics, chalcopyrites, cryotherapies, cytochemistry, erythromycins, heterocyclics, heuristically, hyperacuities, hypercautious, hyperesthetic, hypochlorites, lycanthropies, nonhysterical, parasynthetic, psychometrics, psychometries, psychrometric, pyrotechnists, rhythmicities, secretaryship, stoichiometry. | |
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