Giddy

/ˈɡɪd.i/ · adjective

Meaning

(predicative only) Feeling a sense of spinning in the head, causing a perception of unsteadiness and being about to fall down; dizzy..

Definitions by Sense

1. (predicative only) Feeling a sense of spinning in the head, causing a perception of unsteadiness and being about to fall down; dizzy.
2. (attributive) Causing or likely to cause dizziness or a feeling of unsteadiness.
3. Moving around something or spinning rapidly.
4. Unable to concentrate or think seriously; easily excited; impulsive; also, lightheartedly silly; frivolous.
5. Joyfully elated; overcome with excitement or happiness.
6. Feeling great anger; furious, raging.
7. (British, dialectal, agriculture, veterinary medicine) Of an animal, chiefly a sheep: affected by gid (“a disease caused by parasitic infestation of the brain by tapeworm larvae”), which may result in the animal turning around aimlessly.
8. (obsolete, figuratively) Of a thing, especially a ship: unsteady, as if dizzy.

Example Sentences

The man became giddy upon standing up so fast.

[W]hilst I vvas thus muſing, and attentively looking upon the VVater, to try vvhether I could diſcover the Bottom, it happened to me, as it often does to thoſe that gaze too ſtedfaſtly on ſvvift Streams, that my Head began to grovv giddy, and my Leggs to ſtagger tovvards the River, into vvhich queſtionleſs I had fell, if Philaretus had not ſeaſonably and obligingly prevented it.

I wish you wouldn't keep appearing and vanishing so suddenly: you make one quite giddy.

They see the roofs and argue about where the different churches are: Rathmines' blue dome, Adam and Eve's, saint Laurence O'Toole's. But it makes them giddy to look so they pull up their skirts …

Susan loved to drink wine, and I was not a drinker at all, so I'd just sit there and watch her drink glass after glass and get giddier and giddier.

They climbed to a giddy height.

[A]s vve pact along, / Vpon the giddy footing of the hatches: / Me thought that Gloceſter ſtumbled, and in ſtumbling, / Stroke me that thought to ſtay him ouer board, / Into the tumbling billovves of the maine.

VVilt thou vpon the high and giddy maſſe, / Seale vp the ſhip-boies eies, and rocke his braines, […]

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• giddier
• giddiest
• giddies
• giddying
• giddied

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