{
  "hysterical":{
    "causing or intended to cause laughter":{
      "examples":[
        "some of the things little kids come out with are hysterical"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "antic",
        "chucklesome",
        "comedic",
        "comic",
        "comical",
        "droll",
        "farcical",
        "funny",
        "hilarious",
        "humoristic",
        "humorous",
        "killing",
        "laughable",
        "ludicrous",
        "ridiculous",
        "riotous",
        "risible",
        "screaming",
        "sidesplitting",
        "uproarious"
      ],
      "near synonyms":[
        "amusing",
        "diverting",
        "entertaining",
        "clownish",
        "knockabout",
        "slapstick",
        "slapsticky",
        "zany",
        "facetious",
        "flip",
        "flippant",
        "pert",
        "smart",
        "smart-aleck",
        "smart-alecky",
        "snickery",
        "jocular",
        "playful",
        "waggish",
        "campy",
        "jokey",
        "joky",
        "priceless",
        "rich",
        "whimsical",
        "witty",
        "wry",
        "blithesome",
        "gleeful",
        "jocose",
        "jocund",
        "jolly",
        "jovial",
        "laughing",
        "mad",
        "merry",
        "mirthful"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "earnest",
        "grave",
        "no-nonsense",
        "sedate",
        "serious",
        "severe",
        "sober",
        "sobersided",
        "solemn",
        "somber",
        "sombre",
        "staid",
        "unsmiling",
        "weighty",
        "affecting",
        "moving",
        "poignant",
        "touching",
        "tragic",
        "tragical",
        "lachrymose",
        "mournful",
        "sad",
        "sorrowful",
        "tearful",
        "woeful"
      ],
      "antonyms":[
        "humorless",
        "lame",
        "unamusing",
        "uncomic",
        "unfunny",
        "unhumorous",
        "unhysterical"
      ]
    },
    "feeling overwhelming fear or worry":{
      "examples":[
        "the police officer assured the mother that there was no need to get hysterical , for most missing children are found safe and sound"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "agitated",
        "delirious",
        "distracted",
        "distrait",
        "distraught",
        "frantic",
        "frenzied"
      ],
      "near synonyms":[
        "alarmed",
        "anxious",
        "disquieted",
        "disturbed",
        "nervous",
        "perturbed",
        "tense",
        "troubled",
        "upset",
        "worried",
        "wrought (up)",
        "affrighted",
        "aghast",
        "alarmed",
        "fearful",
        "frightened",
        "horrified",
        "scared",
        "spooked",
        "terrified",
        "terrorized",
        "ballistic",
        "berserk",
        "crazed",
        "demented",
        "deranged",
        "mad",
        "maniacal",
        "maniac",
        "nuclear",
        "raging",
        "ranting",
        "raving"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "calm",
        "peaceful",
        "placid",
        "self-possessed",
        "serene",
        "tranquil",
        "cool",
        "coolheaded",
        "undisturbed",
        "unperturbed",
        "unshaken",
        "untroubled",
        "unworried"
      ],
      "antonyms":[
        "collected",
        "composed",
        "recollected",
        "self-collected",
        "self-composed",
        "self-possessed",
        "unhysterical"
      ]
    },
    "filled with fear or dread":{
      "examples":[
        "upon hearing the announcement that a shark had been sighted, hysterical beachgoers raced out of the water"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "affrighted",
        "afraid",
        "aghast",
        "alarmed",
        "fearful",
        "frightened",
        "horrified",
        "horror-struck",
        "scared",
        "scary",
        "shocked",
        "spooked",
        "terrified",
        "terrorized"
      ],
      "near synonyms":[
        "chicken",
        "fainthearted",
        "fearsome",
        "shrinking",
        "shy",
        "timid",
        "timorous",
        "tremulant",
        "tremulous",
        "agitated",
        "anxious",
        "apprehensive",
        "disconcerted",
        "disquieted",
        "disturbed",
        "funky",
        "jittery",
        "jumpy",
        "nervous",
        "panicked",
        "panicky",
        "panic-stricken",
        "perturbed",
        "skittish",
        "uneasy",
        "upset",
        "worried",
        "phobic",
        "appalled",
        "dismayed",
        "startled",
        "cowed",
        "daunted",
        "intimidated",
        "unnerved",
        "coward",
        "cowardly",
        "craven",
        "gutless",
        "lily-livered",
        "pusillanimous",
        "careful",
        "cautious",
        "heedful",
        "prudent",
        "unadventurous",
        "wary"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "adventuresome",
        "adventurous",
        "audacious",
        "bold",
        "daredevil",
        "daring",
        "dashing",
        "gutsy",
        "plucky",
        "spirited",
        "spunky",
        "venturesome",
        "venturous",
        "brave",
        "courageous",
        "gallant",
        "hardy",
        "heroic",
        "heroical",
        "intrepid",
        "lionhearted",
        "manful",
        "stalwart",
        "stout",
        "stouthearted",
        "valiant",
        "valorous",
        "assured",
        "collected",
        "composed",
        "confident",
        "cool",
        "sanguine",
        "sure",
        "unperturbed",
        "dauntless",
        "resolute",
        "undaunted"
      ],
      "antonyms":[
        "fearless",
        "unafraid"
      ]
    },
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "hysterics":{
    "as in hysteria , melodrama":{
      "examples":[],
      "synonyms":[],
      "near synonyms":[
        "hand-wringing",
        "histrionics",
        "hysteria",
        "melodrama",
        "solicitude",
        "tenderness",
        "understanding",
        "warmth",
        "vehemence",
        "receptiveness",
        "receptivity",
        "responsiveness",
        "sensitivity",
        "compassion",
        "empathy",
        "pity",
        "sympathy",
        "emotion",
        "feeling",
        "sensibility"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "affectlessness",
        "apathy",
        "emotionlessness",
        "impassiveness",
        "impassivity",
        "insensibility",
        "numbness",
        "phlegm",
        "bloodlessness",
        "callosity",
        "callousness",
        "coldness",
        "coolness",
        "halfheartedness",
        "hard-heartedness",
        "hardness",
        "heartlessness",
        "imperturbability",
        "insensitivity",
        "obduracy",
        "blankness",
        "deadness",
        "emptiness",
        "vacancy"
      ],
      "antonyms":[]
    },
    "type":[
      "plural noun"
    ]
  },
  "hysterias":{
    "a state of wildly excited activity or emotion":{
      "examples":[
        "the hysteria of the mother when she realized that she had lost her four-year-old son in the crowd"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "agitation",
        "deliriousness",
        "delirium",
        "distraction",
        "fever",
        "feverishness",
        "flap",
        "frenzy",
        "furor",
        "furore",
        "fury",
        "rage",
        "rampage",
        "uproar"
      ],
      "near synonyms":[
        "chaos",
        "confusion",
        "disorder",
        "havoc",
        "pandemonium",
        "turmoil",
        "bedlam",
        "bother",
        "brouhaha",
        "bustle",
        "clamor",
        "clatter",
        "commotion",
        "disturbance",
        "fuss",
        "hoo-ha",
        "hoo-hah",
        "hubbub",
        "hullabaloo",
        "hurly-burly",
        "ruckus",
        "ruction",
        "rumpus",
        "shindy",
        "squall",
        "stew",
        "stir",
        "storm",
        "tempest",
        "to-do",
        "tumult"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "calm",
        "calmness",
        "peace",
        "peacefulness",
        "placidity",
        "quiet",
        "quietude",
        "repose",
        "restfulness",
        "sereneness",
        "serenity",
        "still",
        "stillness",
        "tranquillity",
        "tranquility",
        "tranquilness"
      ],
      "antonyms":[]
    },
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  }
}