0 unable to control your feelings or behaviour because you are extremely frightened, angry, excited, etc.: --
1 unable to control your emotions or behavior because you are very frightened, excited, etc.: --
The victim's wife was hysterical with grief and had to be sedated.
There was a predictably hysterical reaction from the press when the news was announced.
All right, calm down, don't get hysterical. There's a lot of blood, but actually it's not that serious.
She rang up in a hysterical state, saying that her husband had slapped her.
I suspect the doctor thought I was just another hysterical female, getting all worked up about nothing.