giddy

[ gid-ee ]
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adjective,gid·di·er, gid·di·est.
  1. affected with vertigo; dizzy.

  2. attended with or causing dizziness: a giddy climb.

  1. frivolous and lighthearted; flighty: a giddy young person.

verb (used with or without object),gid·died, gid·dy·ing.
  1. to make or become giddy.

Origin of giddy

1
First recorded before 1000; Middle English gidy, Old English gidig “mad,” variant of gydig (unrecorded), derivative of god God, presumably originally “possessed by a divine being”

Other words for giddy

Other words from giddy

  • gid·di·ly, adverb
  • gid·di·ness, noun
  • un·gid·dy, adjective

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How to use giddy in a sentence

  • We are shocked, though, at the brazenly commercial character that certain sedate houses have taken on in the giddier part of town.

    Bizarre | Lawton Mackall
  • Mother must have been giddier in her youth than I ever imagined.

    Biltmore Oswald | J. Thorne Smith, Jr.
  • He has done a giddier thing than that, and will clear out of Laysford like a dog with its tail down.

    The Call of the Town | John Alexander Hammerton
  • My head is giddier than becomes a head of my age; and my stomach has not recovered its retentive faculty.

  • For days, nay, weeks after these drives on the Roof of France, my sleep was haunted with giddy climbs and still giddier descents.

    The Roof of France | Matilda Betham-Edwards

British Dictionary definitions for giddy

giddy

/ (ˈɡɪdɪ) /


adjective-dier or -diest
  1. affected with a reeling sensation and feeling as if about to fall; dizzy

  2. causing or tending to cause vertigo

  1. impulsive; scatterbrained

  2. my giddy aunt an exclamation of surprise

verb-dies, -dying or -died
  1. to make or become giddy

Origin of giddy

1
Old English gydig mad, frenzied, possessed by God; related to God

Derived forms of giddy

  • giddily, adverb
  • giddiness, noun

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