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Definition of dizzy in English: dizzyadjectivedizziest, dizzier ˈdɪziˈdɪzi 1Having or involving a sensation of spinning around and losing one's balance. Jonathan had begun to suffer dizzy spells figurative he looked around, dizzy with happiness Example sentencesExamples - The ache was beginning to impair my vision, making me dizzy and nauseous.
- The dizzy spell passed, and he tentatively opened his eyes again.
- She forced herself to move on, but she was dizzy with confusion and lust.
- Peering over the edge behind the shrine, the sheer drop to the valley floor below made me dizzy.
- I tried not to think about it so much because it made my head all dizzy.
- Does household cleaning give you headaches, nausea, dizzy spells or sign irritations?
- He needed to sit, or he might just get too dizzy to stand.
- She would close her eyes and spin until she was too dizzy to stand.
- His vision was nearly back to normal, the dizzy spells happened only infrequently.
- I was beginning to feel slightly dizzy, most likely from loss of blood.
- The physician twirled the patient around so fast and long, at one point, that the patient became dizzy and lost her balance.
- With a dizzy head and uncontrollable balance, she took a couple steps towards the kitchen, but she swayed back and forth.
- Being so close to him made her feel slightly dizzy - in a pleasurable way.
- He had begun getting dizzy spells and even lost consciousness at points.
- In July 1999 he began suffering dizzy spells, resulting in loss of balance, and painful headaches.
- His head was still dizzy and his senses clouded, but one thing was for sure in his mind.
- I turned around to tell him something in reply, but I suddenly felt very dizzy.
- He experienced considerable headaches, loss of short-term and new memory, loss of concentration and dizzy spells.
- Her mom makes her really mad a lot, and when that happens she'll run into her room and dance until she's dizzy.
- She was so dizzy with happiness, she didn't notice them walk out of the door, she didn't care they were walking through the town.
Synonyms giddy, light-headed, faint, weak, weak at the knees, unsteady, shaky, wobbly, off-balance reeling, staggering, tottering, teetering informal woozy, with legs like jelly, with rubbery legs rare vertiginous dazed, confused, muddled, befuddled, bewildered, disoriented, disorientated, stupefied, groggy informal woozy, muzzy, dopey, woolly, woolly-headed, not with it, discombobulated - 1.1 Causing a spinning sensation.
figurative a dizzy range of hues Example sentencesExamples - As Chrissy unpacked her bag, Ian knelt on the pillows and looked down at the dizzy drop to the rocks below.
- South of that lies the corrie of the pap, Coire na Ciche, taking its name the great rock that gazes down into the dizzy depths below.
Synonyms giddy-making, dizzy-making, causing dizziness, causing giddiness rare vertiginous - 1.2informal (of a woman) silly.
Example sentencesExamples - The role of Irene could easily have just been put across as simply a dizzy, dumb blonde.
- The bizarre thing about this scene is Bond playing the dizzy blonde to Moneypenny's quick-thinking control freak.
- Yep the dizzy blonde had some friends this week - hallelujah!
- Even a dizzy blonde like Marilyn suggests something more spiritual with the sadness lurking behind her baby blues.
- Is she afraid of being typecast as a brunette version of these dizzy dames?
- Well… welcome to the chronicles of a dizzy blonde in Plymouth (England).
- Oh what a dizzy dame you are, my little petal.
- Does that mean they're dizzy blondes who only care about counting alcohol units and snogging cute guys?
- Karen played the dizzy girl who needed help with her bags and needing to be showed to her room.
- Backing up would have been the sensible option, but a dizzy blonde is never one to possess much common sense…
- I am once again a dizzy blonde in Swindon, having returned from my Welsh tour.
- They first met and became friends six years ago when she was playing Corrie's dizzy blonde barmaid Raquel and he was a top executive at Granada studios.
- So, what has the dizzy blonde been doing, besides the usual clumsy bumping into things, talking rubbish and general silliness?
- Yeah, she was a dizzy, out-of-this-world blonde, but she was great to party with, and great for cheering me up.
- But perhaps because I'm dark not blonde, such idiotic statements are thought of as one-offs rather than a sign of a naturally dizzy blonde brain.
- And now its the weekend, although the dizzy blonde has no friends about and no money to spend.
Synonyms silly, foolish, giddy, light-headed, scatty, scatterbrained, feather-brained, hare-brained, empty-headed, vacuous, stupid, brainless skittish, flighty, fickle, capricious, whimsical, inconstant informal dippy, dopey, batty, dotty, nutty British informal dappy North American informal ditzy
verbdizzies, dizzying, dizzied ˈdɪziˈdɪzi [with object]usually as adjective dizzyingMake (someone) feel unsteady, confused, or amazed. the dizzying rate of change Example sentencesExamples - She was still under the slightly dizzying spell of this young man.
- Be prepared for dizzying diatribes, the full range of human capability and frailty, idiocy and intelligence.
- You can clamber out onto the gently-pitched roof for dizzying views across the lush valley.
- He rose to dizzying heights while still a teenager and his movies are still popular.
- The ebb and flow of people around me was almost dizzying.
- As I walked in the door, the smell of fresh coffee beans and sweet buns dizzied me.
- The targets and justifications for attacking them shift with dizzying rapidity.
- She was almost dizzied when the bottle finally stopped, white end pointing directly to her.
- What laid the basis for the stock market's dizzying ascent was a major, long-term easing of credit.
- He attacked her from behind, but she back-elbowed him which caught him in the right eye and dizzied him.
- Still, the great achievement of the novel is its dizzying invention and grotesquerie.
- Finally the pain became so bad it dizzied him and he fell to the sand and passed out.
- At times, as you'd expect, the swearing reaches dizzying new heights.
- Eventually they reached for the skies and achieved dizzying altitudes.
- Sometimes, pure luck carried some of the film stars to dizzying heights in politics.
- She gasped as she hung there, feeling the first dizzying rush of blood to her head.
- Watching him bat even as he was being honoured took the crowd's enthusiasm to dizzying heights.
- Dropping the chair with a clatter, Joel made for the door, his vision dizzying him.
- This was an event that took the television ratings of the state-owned channel to dizzying heights.
- Why this dazzling and dizzying array of languages and voices?
Phrases informal A position of great importance. the dizzy heights of TV stardom Example sentencesExamples - By Thursday, it had become ‘uncommonly aristocratic’, and last Friday it had reached the dizzy heights of being ‘quintessentially iconoclastic’.
- Neither the Government nor the media help him reach the dizzy heights of success.
- Even when he rose to the dizzy heights of popularity, he remained poor.
- Prices hit dizzy heights of $63 for a short period at the time.
- As he look down upon their rivals from the dizzy heights of pole position, complacency is the only real gremlin to fear.
- He has brought the society to the dizzy heights of competing and winning at national drama festivals and even competing on the world stage.
- He has swapped the dizzy heights of the Premiership for a relegation dogfight - but is convinced he made the correct decision.
- He guided his newly-promoted Portsmouth team to the dizzy heights of the top four.
- However, he never reached the dizzy heights of some of his more famous opponents as he always regarded chess as ‘simply a hobby.’
- He never reached the dizzy heights of role model, and he seems unlikely to scale them now.
Derivatives adverb ˈdɪzɪliˈdɪzɪli But just as these dizzily warped abstractions threatened to become a redundant signature style, Davie discovered a way to move on. Example sentencesExamples - He seems to have listened first to one side, then to the other, with the result that policy on the ground has swung dizzily between the two poles and chaos has been the result.
- The entire experience since they had entered the palace felt surreal, and she wondered dizzily and somewhat vaguely if she was going to faint again.
- The animal, which must have weighed about ten pounds, wobbled dizzily back to the bush.
- I dizzily pull off my boxer shorts, lose balance and crash into the shower door, which graciously opens and grants me entry into the shower.
Origin Old English dysig 'foolish', of West Germanic origin; related to Low German dusig, dösig 'giddy' and Old High German tusic 'foolish, weak'. Rhymes busy, fizzy, frizzy, Izzy, Lizzie, tizzy Definition of dizzy in US English: dizzyadjectiveˈdɪziˈdizē 1Having or involving a sensation of spinning around and losing one's balance. Jonathan had begun to suffer dizzy spells figurative he looked around, dizzy with happiness Example sentencesExamples - She would close her eyes and spin until she was too dizzy to stand.
- I tried not to think about it so much because it made my head all dizzy.
- Does household cleaning give you headaches, nausea, dizzy spells or sign irritations?
- He experienced considerable headaches, loss of short-term and new memory, loss of concentration and dizzy spells.
- He needed to sit, or he might just get too dizzy to stand.
- Peering over the edge behind the shrine, the sheer drop to the valley floor below made me dizzy.
- He had begun getting dizzy spells and even lost consciousness at points.
- The dizzy spell passed, and he tentatively opened his eyes again.
- His head was still dizzy and his senses clouded, but one thing was for sure in his mind.
- She was so dizzy with happiness, she didn't notice them walk out of the door, she didn't care they were walking through the town.
- I was beginning to feel slightly dizzy, most likely from loss of blood.
- Her mom makes her really mad a lot, and when that happens she'll run into her room and dance until she's dizzy.
- The ache was beginning to impair my vision, making me dizzy and nauseous.
- I turned around to tell him something in reply, but I suddenly felt very dizzy.
- The physician twirled the patient around so fast and long, at one point, that the patient became dizzy and lost her balance.
- In July 1999 he began suffering dizzy spells, resulting in loss of balance, and painful headaches.
- She forced herself to move on, but she was dizzy with confusion and lust.
- His vision was nearly back to normal, the dizzy spells happened only infrequently.
- Being so close to him made her feel slightly dizzy - in a pleasurable way.
- With a dizzy head and uncontrollable balance, she took a couple steps towards the kitchen, but she swayed back and forth.
Synonyms giddy, light-headed, faint, weak, weak at the knees, unsteady, shaky, wobbly, off-balance dazed, confused, muddled, befuddled, bewildered, disoriented, disorientated, stupefied, groggy - 1.1 Causing a dizzy sensation.
figurative a dizzy range of hues Example sentencesExamples - South of that lies the corrie of the pap, Coire na Ciche, taking its name the great rock that gazes down into the dizzy depths below.
- As Chrissy unpacked her bag, Ian knelt on the pillows and looked down at the dizzy drop to the rocks below.
Synonyms giddy-making, dizzy-making, causing dizziness, causing giddiness - 1.2informal (of a woman) silly but attractive.
he only married me because he wanted a dizzy blonde Example sentencesExamples - They first met and became friends six years ago when she was playing Corrie's dizzy blonde barmaid Raquel and he was a top executive at Granada studios.
- Backing up would have been the sensible option, but a dizzy blonde is never one to possess much common sense…
- So, what has the dizzy blonde been doing, besides the usual clumsy bumping into things, talking rubbish and general silliness?
- And now its the weekend, although the dizzy blonde has no friends about and no money to spend.
- Even a dizzy blonde like Marilyn suggests something more spiritual with the sadness lurking behind her baby blues.
- Yeah, she was a dizzy, out-of-this-world blonde, but she was great to party with, and great for cheering me up.
- I am once again a dizzy blonde in Swindon, having returned from my Welsh tour.
- Does that mean they're dizzy blondes who only care about counting alcohol units and snogging cute guys?
- The role of Irene could easily have just been put across as simply a dizzy, dumb blonde.
- Well… welcome to the chronicles of a dizzy blonde in Plymouth (England).
- Karen played the dizzy girl who needed help with her bags and needing to be showed to her room.
- But perhaps because I'm dark not blonde, such idiotic statements are thought of as one-offs rather than a sign of a naturally dizzy blonde brain.
- Yep the dizzy blonde had some friends this week - hallelujah!
- Is she afraid of being typecast as a brunette version of these dizzy dames?
- Oh what a dizzy dame you are, my little petal.
- The bizarre thing about this scene is Bond playing the dizzy blonde to Moneypenny's quick-thinking control freak.
Synonyms silly, foolish, giddy, light-headed, scatty, scatterbrained, feather-brained, hare-brained, empty-headed, vacuous, stupid, brainless
verbˈdɪziˈdizē [with object]usually as adjective dizzyingMake (someone) feel unsteady, confused, or amazed. the dizzying rate of change Example sentencesExamples - He attacked her from behind, but she back-elbowed him which caught him in the right eye and dizzied him.
- The ebb and flow of people around me was almost dizzying.
- This was an event that took the television ratings of the state-owned channel to dizzying heights.
- Finally the pain became so bad it dizzied him and he fell to the sand and passed out.
- You can clamber out onto the gently-pitched roof for dizzying views across the lush valley.
- She was still under the slightly dizzying spell of this young man.
- What laid the basis for the stock market's dizzying ascent was a major, long-term easing of credit.
- At times, as you'd expect, the swearing reaches dizzying new heights.
- He rose to dizzying heights while still a teenager and his movies are still popular.
- As I walked in the door, the smell of fresh coffee beans and sweet buns dizzied me.
- Still, the great achievement of the novel is its dizzying invention and grotesquerie.
- She gasped as she hung there, feeling the first dizzying rush of blood to her head.
- Be prepared for dizzying diatribes, the full range of human capability and frailty, idiocy and intelligence.
- The targets and justifications for attacking them shift with dizzying rapidity.
- Watching him bat even as he was being honoured took the crowd's enthusiasm to dizzying heights.
- Dropping the chair with a clatter, Joel made for the door, his vision dizzying him.
- She was almost dizzied when the bottle finally stopped, white end pointing directly to her.
- Why this dazzling and dizzying array of languages and voices?
- Eventually they reached for the skies and achieved dizzying altitudes.
- Sometimes, pure luck carried some of the film stars to dizzying heights in politics.
Origin Old English dysig ‘foolish’, of West Germanic origin; related to Low German dusig, dösig ‘giddy’ and Old High German tusic ‘foolish, weak’. |