semihysterical

English

Etymology

semi- +‎ hysterical

Adjective

semihysterical (not comparable)

1. Somewhat or partly hysterical.
   • 1980, Stephen King, The Mist:

     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.