Giddy

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  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Having a reeling, lightheaded sensation; dizzy.
  • adjective. Causing or capable of causing dizziness.
  • adjective. Frivolous and lighthearted; flighty.
  • intransitive & transitive verb. To become or make giddy.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Foolishly light or frivolous; governed by wild or thoughtless impulses; manifesting exuberant spirits or levity; flighty; heedless.
  • Characterized by or indicating giddiness or levity of feeling.
  • Affected with vertigo, or a swimming sensation in the head, causing liability to reel or fall; dizzy; reeling: as, to be giddy from fever or drunkenness, or in looking down from a great height.
  • Adapted to cause or to suggest giddiness; of a dizzy or dizzying nature; acting or causing to act giddily.
  • = Syn. 1 and 2. Careless, reckless, headlong, flighty, hare-brained, light-headed.
  • To make dizzy or unsteady.
  • To turn quickly; reel.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To make dizzy or unsteady.
  • intransitive verb. To reel; to whirl.
  • adjective. Having in the head a sensation of whirling or reeling about; having lost the power of preserving the balance of the body, and therefore wavering and inclined to fall; lightheaded; dizzy.
  • adjective. Promoting or inducing giddiness
  • adjective. Bewildering on account of rapid turning; running round with celerity; gyratory; whirling.
  • adjective. Characterized by inconstancy; unstable; changeable; fickle; wild; thoughtless; heedless.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. dizzy, feeling dizzy or unsteady and as if about to fall down
  • adjective. causing dizziness: causing dizziness or a feeling of unsteadiness
  • adjective. lightheartedly silly, or joyfully elated
  • adjective. Frivolous, impulsive, inconsistent, changeable.
  • verb. To make dizzy or unsteady.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling
  • adjective. lacking seriousness; given to frivolity
  • Word Usage
    "The word giddy has appeared in 287 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Oct. 23 in the book review, "The Radical Entertainment of Harry Belafonte", by Garrison Keillor:"
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    frivolous  ill  sick  
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    giddiness  
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    Biddie  Biddy  Liddy  biddy  bridie  
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