Meanings
- not comparableSomewhat or partly hysterical.
1 more example
The next four hours passed in a kind of dream. There was a long and semihysterical discussion following Brown’s confirmation, or maybe the discussion wasn’t as long as it seemed; maybe it was just the grim necessity of people chewing over the same information, trying to see it from every possible point of view, working it the way a dog works a bone, trying to get at the marrow.
1980, Stephen King, The Mist, Viking Press
Origin
Cite this entry
semihysterical. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/semihysterical
“semihysterical.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/semihysterical. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “semihysterical,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/semihysterical.
Source: semihysterical on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.