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giddy
[ gid-ee ]
adjective
- affected with vertigo; dizzy.
Synonyms: vertiginous, lightheaded
- attended with or causing dizziness:
a giddy climb.
- frivolous and lighthearted; flighty:
a giddy young person.
Synonyms: vacillating, inconstant, fickle, mercurial, volatile, unstable
verb (used with or without object)
- to make or become giddy.
giddy
/ ˈɡɪdɪ /
adjective
- affected with a reeling sensation and feeling as if about to fall; dizzy
- causing or tending to cause vertigo
- impulsive; scatterbrained
- my giddy auntan exclamation of surprise
verb
- to make or become giddy
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Derived Forms
- ˈgiddiness, noun
- ˈgiddily, adverb
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Other Words From
- gid·di·ly adverb
- gid·di·ness noun
- un·gid·dy adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of giddy1
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Example Sentences
I found this as exciting as Enright did—she sounded giddy—but one of my coworkers was less enthused.
Some were silent from shock, others giddy and smiling as they boarded the U.S. Air Force C-130s.
The prevailing color is pink; the headgear: red bows and ears; the guests: super giddy.
His giddy glee turns sickening when you consider the coldhearted inhumanity that necessarily lies beneath.
After a friend shared the Kickstarter campaign, she felt giddy.
He who has attained it grows giddy, and the fiercest winds are summoned to blow him from his eminence.
The silent parterre would be gay with a giddy, chattering mob of Society people before long, Vera hurriedly explained.
The mountain paths were narrow; they were often a mere cornice or ledge projecting over a giddy precipice.
The vapours revolve, the waves spin, the giddy Naiads roll; sea and sky are livid; noises as of cries of despair are in the air.
This is a cluster of white houses on the sea-beat foot of a hill that sweeps upward to the giddy white clouds.
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