How do you pronounce hysteric?

The recorded pronunciation is /hɪsˈtɛɹɪk/.

hysteric

/hɪsˈtɛɹɪk/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.06 in modern English

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"Yes, my dravving-room is an abſolute regiſter-office for candidate actors, and poets vvithout character;—then to be continually alarmed vvith Miſſes and Ma'ams piping hiſteric changes on Juliets and Dorindas, Pollys and Ophelias; […]"
"We also find gamblers of this type among some frigid hysteric women, who seem to treat gambling as they treat men, coldly and spongingly."
"“Which girl was it now?” he asks a second time. ¶ “Oh, you know, the hysteric,” Eleanor says, “the one who was parading her bazooms in your face.”"

From Latin hystericus, from Ancient Greek ὑστερικός (husterikós, “suffering in the uterus, hysterical”), from ὑστέρα (hustéra, “womb”).

more hysteric (comparative) most hysteric (superlative) hysterick (alternative, obsolete) hysterics (plural)

homohysteric hystericize hystericky

hysteria hysterical

hysterical

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