Dizzy
['dɪzɪ] or ['dɪzi]
Definition
(verb.) make dizzy or giddy; 'a dizzying pace'.
(adj.) having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling; 'had a dizzy spell'; 'a dizzy pinnacle'; 'had a headache and felt giddy'; 'a giddy precipice'; 'feeling woozy from the blow on his head'; 'a vertiginous climb up the face of the cliff' .
Checker: Vivian--From WordNet
Definition
(superl.) Having in the head a sensation of whirling, with a tendency to fall; vertiginous; giddy; hence, confused; indistinct.
(superl.) Causing, or tending to cause, giddiness or vertigo.
(superl.) Without distinct thought; unreflecting; thoughtless; heedless.
(v. t.) To make dizzy or giddy; to give the vertigo to; to confuse.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Giddy, vertiginous.[2]. Thoughtless, heedless, careless.
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Definition
adj. giddy: confused: causing giddiness.—v.t. to make dizzy: to confuse.—adv. Dizz′ily.—n. Dizz′iness giddiness.—p.adj. Dizz′ying making dizzy.
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Examples
- It makes me dizzy, to think of the Vatican--of its wilderness of statues, paintings, and curiosities of every description and every age. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I felt dizzy and furious. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- But he was still dizzy with the glimpse of the precipice they had skirted, and full of a new awe at the mystery of young-girlhood. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- It always makes you happy, darling, and it only makes me dizzy. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I stumbled over an obstacle: my head was still dizzy, my sight was dim, and my limbs were feeble. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The sun is a dizzying scarlet blaze, the sky a violet vortex whirling over me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Meanwhile, at Milton the chimneys smoked, the ceaseless roar and mighty beat, and dizzying whirl of machinery, struggled and strove perpetually. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
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