- feeling as if everything is turning around you and that you are not able to balance synonym giddy
- Climbing so high made me feel dizzy.
- I suffer from dizzy spells (= short periods when I am dizzy).
Extra ExamplesTopics Health problemsc1- He was all right, just a bit dizzy, that's all.
- She felt almost dizzy with happiness.
- Some of the fairground rides can make you quite dizzy.
- Almost dizzy with relief, she smiled broadly.
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- making you feel dizzy; making you feel that a situation is changing very fast synonym giddy
- the dizzy descent from the summit
- the dizzy pace of life in Hong Kong
- (especially North American English, informal) silly or stupid synonym giddy
- a dizzy blonde
Word OriginOld English dysig ‘foolish’, of West Germanic origin; related to Low German dusig, dösig ‘giddy’ and Old High German tusic ‘foolish, weak’.
Idioms
See dizzy in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarythe dizzy heights (of something)
- (informal) an important or impressive position
- She dreamed of reaching the dizzy heights of stardom.
- They reached the dizzy heights of Number 11 in the charts.
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