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View synonyms for light-headed

light-headed

adjective

  1. frivolous in disposition or behaviour
  2. giddy; feeling faint or slightly delirious


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Derived Forms

  • ˌlight-ˈheadedly, adverb
  • ˌlight-ˈheadedness, noun

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Example Sentences

Same goes for anyone who has low blood pressure or tends to get light-headed easily.

Somewhere along the way he had likely started feeling bad—light-headed or woozy.

I will grant you are young—the woman handsome—and, as I myself have observed, light-headed enough.

After all, Lucille Ashtonbury Clifford, the light-headed windmill, seems to have got the best of all this.

The girl felt light-headed and giddy as though the rush above had rarefied the air under the cliffs.

The widow promised devoutly to obey all his directions; but he had begun to talk light-headed before he was undressed.

When Maurice von Lynar reached the open air he stood for full five minutes, light-headed in the rush of the city traffic.

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