giddy

[ gid-ee ]

/ ˈgɪd i /

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adjective, gid·di·er, gid·di·est.

affected with vertigo; dizzy.

attended with or causing dizziness: a giddy climb.

frivolous and lighthearted; flighty: a giddy young person.

verb (used with or without object), gid·died, gid·dy·ing.

to make or become giddy.

OTHER WORDS FOR giddy

1 lightheaded, vertiginous.

3 unstable, volatile, mercurial, fickle, inconstant, vacillating.

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Origin of giddy

First recorded before 1000; Middle English gidy, Old English gidig “mad” (as variant of unattested gydig ), derivative of god God, presumably originally “possessed by a divine being”

OTHER WORDS FROM giddy

gid·di·ly, adverbgid·di·ness, nounun·gid·dy, adjective

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How to use giddy in a sentence

He aimed it at his eye, and smiled broadly as his female companion giddily snapped photos.
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When it premiered, critics giddily showered it with bouquets of roses, many going so far as to call it monumental.
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He cracked the shell of anonymity, emerged giddily into the light and took on a new moniker.
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My whole goal with this place,” he says, bouncing giddily, “was people are eating like this.
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The next morning, Perez Hilton giddily tweeted, “His box office glory days are over!”
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She felt impelled to fly from that house, from the narrow circles, which whirled giddily around her, to fly from herself.
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Now they would drift gently on the swell of the quiet sea, now they would whirl giddily on the crest of a storm-tossed wave.
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The degree in mathematics and chemistry appealed to me as particularly congenial—albeit giddily inaccessible.
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He wondered giddily how old she was—she seemed so much more self-possessed and experienced than himself.
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A whirlwind of sand was advancing towards them along the beach below, revolving giddily.
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British Dictionary definitions for giddy

giddy

/ (ˈɡɪdɪ) /

adjective -dier or -diest

affected with a reeling sensation and feeling as if about to fall; dizzy

causing or tending to cause vertigo

impulsive; scatterbrained

my giddy aunt an exclamation of surprise

verb -dies, -dying or -died

to make or become giddy

Derived forms of giddy

giddily, adverbgiddiness, noun

Word Origin for giddy

Old English gydig mad, frenzied, possessed by God; related to God

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