About The Word Vertiginous
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Vertiginous
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What's The Definition Of Vertiginous?
[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 Vertiginous: dizzy | giddy | ill | sick | woozy Related Terms | Find terms related to Vertiginous: See Also | Vertiginous In Webster's Dictionary \Ver*tig"i*nous\, a. [L. vertiginosus, fr. vertigo a
whirling around, giddiness: cf. F. vertigineux. See
{Vertig??}.]
1. Turning round; whirling; rotary; revolving; as,
vertiginous motion.
Some vertiginous whirl of fortune. --De Quincey.
2. Affected with vertigo; giddy; dizzy.
They [the angels] grew vertiginous, and fell from
the battlements of heaven. --Jer. Taylor.
-- {Ver*tig"i*nous*ly}, adv. -- {Ver*tig"i*nous*ness}, n.
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