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Giddy

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What's The Definition Of Giddy?
[adj] lacking seriousness; given to frivolity; "a dizzy blonde"; "light-headed teenagers"; "silly giggles"
[adj] having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling; "had a dizzy spell"; "a dizzy pinnacle"; "had a headache and felt giddy"; "a giddy precipice"; "feeling woozy from the blow on his head"; "a vertiginous climb up the face of the cliff" Synonyms | Synonyms for Giddy: airheaded | dizzy | empty-headed | featherbrained | frivolous | ill | lightheaded | light-headed | sick | silly | vertiginous | woozy Related Terms | Find terms related to Giddy: addled | adrift | afloat | alternating | amorphous | babbling | beery | bemused | besotted | blind drunk | brainless | capricious | changeable | changeful | crapulent | crapulous | delirious | desultory | deviable | dizzy | drenched | drunk | drunken | eccentric | empty-headed | erratic | faint | far-gone | fast and loose | featherbrained | featherheaded | fickle | fitful | flickering | flighty | flitting | fluctuating | flustered | fluttery | fou | freakish | fribble | fribbling | frivolous | full | gaga | gay | giddy-brained | giddy-headed | giddy-pated | giddy-witted | glorious | happy | harebrain | harebrained | impetuous | impulsive | in liquor | incoherent | inconsistent | inconstant | indecisive | inebriate | inebriated | inebrious | infirm | intoxicated | irregular | irresolute | irresponsible | jolly | light | lightheaded | light-headed | maudlin | mazy | mellow | mercurial | merry | moody | muddled | nappy | off | rambling | ranting | rattlebrained | rattleheaded | rattlepated | raving | reckless | reeling | restless | roving | scatterbrained | scramblebrained | shapeless | shatterbrained | shifting | shifty | shikker | shuffling | silly | skittish | sodden | sotted | spasmodic | spineless | swimming | thoughtless | tiddly | tipsy | turned around | unaccountable | uncertain | uncontrolled | undependable | under the influence | undisciplined | unfixed | unpredictable | unreliable | unrestrained | unsettled | unstable | unstable as water | unstaid | unsteadfast | unsteady | vacillating | vagrant | variable | vertiginous | vicissitudinary | vicissitudinous | volatile | wandering | wanton | wavering | wavery | wavy | wayward | whimsical | wishy-washy | witless | woozy | yeasty See Also | Giddy In Webster's Dictionary \Gid"dy\, a. [Compar. {Giddier}; superl. {Giddiest}.] [OE.
gidi mad, silly, AS. gidig, of unknown origin, cf. Norw.
gidda to shake, tremble.]
1. 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.
By giddy head and staggering legs betrayed. --Tate.
2. Promoting or inducing giddiness; as, a giddy height; a
giddy precipice. --Prior.
Upon the giddy footing of the hatches. --Shak.
3. Bewildering on account of rapid turning; running round
with celerity; gyratory; whirling.
The giddy motion of the whirling mill. --Pope.
4. Characterized by inconstancy; unstable; changeable;
fickle; wild; thoughtless; heedless. ``Giddy, foolish
hours.'' --Rowe. ``Giddy chance.'' --Dryden.
Young heads are giddy and young hearts are warm.
--Cowper.
\Gid"dy\, v. i. To reel; to whirl. --Chapman. \Gid"dy\, v. t. To make dizzy or unsteady. [Obs.] |
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