Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a whirling sensation and a tendency to fall.
- adjective Bewildered or confused.
- adjective Slang Scatterbrained or silly.
- adjective Producing or tending to produce giddiness.
- adjective Characterized by impulsive haste; very rapid.
- transitive verb To cause to have a whirling sensation.
- transitive verb To confuse or bewilder.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To be foolish; act foolishly.
- To make giddy; confuse.
- Foolish; stupid.
- Giddy; having a sensation of whirling in the head, with instability or proneness to fall; vertiginous.
- Causing giddiness: as, a dizzy height.
- Arising from or caused by giddiness.
- Giddy; thoughtless; heedless.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make dizzy or giddy; to give the vertigo to; to confuse.
- adjective Having in the head a sensation of whirling, with a tendency to fall; vertiginous; giddy; hence, confused; indistinct.
- adjective Causing, or tending to cause, giddiness or vertigo.
- adjective Without distinct thought; unreflecting; thoughtless; heedless.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective having a
sensation ofturning around;giddy ; feelingunbalanced orlightheaded . - adjective producing
giddiness - adjective
empty-headed ,scatterbrained orfrivolous - verb transitive To make dizzy, to
bewilder .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make dizzy or giddy
- adjective lacking seriousness; given to frivolity
- adjective having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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The latest data point that's got the doubters in a dizzy is a new LA Times poll that shows that Kerry's slipped a couple of points in the wake of the Swift Boat Liars leaky raft.
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The latest data point that's got the doubters in a dizzy is a new LA Times poll that shows that Kerry's slipped a couple of points in the wake of the Swift Boat Liars leaky raft.
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The latest data point that's got the doubters in a dizzy is a new LA Times poll that shows that Kerry's slipped a couple of points in the wake of the Swift Boat Liars leaky raft.
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The latest data point that's got the doubters in a dizzy is a new LA Times poll that shows that Kerry's slipped a couple of points in the wake of the Swift Boat Liars leaky raft.
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'Sometimes,' she said, 'when I was that dizzy from the heat of the cooking that if I didn't take a breath of fresh air I'd faint, I'd stick my head out of the kitchen window, and close my eyes and see most wonderful things.
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But at Necco, Green was generous in describing ingredients during a long, old-versus-new tasting that left me dizzy from a sugar rush.
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