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vertiginous
/ vɜːˈtɪdʒɪnəs /
adjective
- of, relating to, or having vertigo
- producing dizziness
- whirling
- changeable; unstable
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Derived Forms
- verˈtiginousness, noun
- verˈtiginously, adverb
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Other Words From
- ver·tigi·nous·ly adverb
- ver·tigi·nous·ness noun
- unver·tigi·nous adjective
- unver·tigi·nous·ly adverb
- unver·tigi·nous·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of vertiginous1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of vertiginous1
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Example Sentences
His prophecy kicked off a vertiginous frenzy of doomsaying, and he was thrown in jail by fearful Bolognese officials.
Skiing/boarding at Niseko is not about reaching vertiginous heights.
Ahead of him, as he rose to his feet, the line of guards stood out as paler darknesses against the vertiginous island face.
A vertiginous faintness brought him half tumbling and half rolling back into his chair, wheezing and moist with sweat.
It is only after long internal travail that it moves with vertiginous rapidity.
This Tarantula-dance of repetitions and vertiginous argumentation in circulo, begun in imposture and self-consummated in madness!
Music was become vertiginous; a mad vortex, wherein whirled mad atoms, madly embracing.
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