Meaning of semihysterical | Babel Free

Definitions

Somewhat or partly hysterical.

not-comparable

Examples

“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.”

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