(superl.) 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.
(superl.) Promoting or inducing giddiness; as, a giddy height; a giddy precipice.
(superl.) Bewildering on account of rapid turning; running round with celerity; gyratory; whirling.
(superl.) Characterized by inconstancy; unstable; changeable; fickle; wild; thoughtless; heedless.
(v. i.) To reel; to whirl.
(v. t.) To make dizzy or unsteady.
Example Sentences:
(1) Twenty workers promptly developed symptoms (e.g., nausea, vomiting, abdominal discomfort, diarrhea, giddiness, lassitude, headache, cough, shortness of breath) that typically lasted a few hours but persisted 1-2 days in 7 cases.
(2) Everyone wants to forget that Britain’s biggest bank, HSBC, was caught, and admitted, laundering Chapo Guzmán’s giddy profits , as was Wachovia bank , a subsidiary of Wells Fargo: hundreds of billions of dollars of Sinaloa cartel blood money, handled with effective impunity inasmuch as no one in either instance was prosecuted, let alone jailed – indeed, most were promoted.
(3) In some parts of the country, then, the giddiness sown by a hyped-up recovery and rising house prices – up by an annual average of 7.7% , according to Halifax, with George Osborne's Help To Buy scheme having played its part – is evidently doing its work.
(4) Giddiness, nausea and vomiting were the common adverse effects observed.
(5) In the event it was Campbell who took the gold, producing a display of controlled long range aggression to secure Team GB's 28th gold medal of these rather giddy Games.
(6) More giddy blog posts may lie ahead: All Things Digital claimed in October that Snapchat is in talks about yet another funding round valuing the company at a startling $3.6bn , with a lead investor potentially being "a strategic party from Asia" – later fingered as internet firm Tencent.
(7) The mother country would have a hard time refuting the charge that the English just don't take the international game seriously, however giddy St George turns every couple of years.
(8) Perhaps giddy with the excitement of it all, Djokovic produces a couple of unforced errors to give Nadal a break point.
(9) The giddy rise in house prices, too, should be examined skeptically.
(10) Hypertension (n = 50) and the related symptom of headache (n = 40), dyspnea (n = 24), and giddiness (n = 20) were common at presentation.
(11) The giddiness was characterized by a late onset and was usually present even at 24 hours.
(12) Tuesday Thornberry and her staff have recently been upgraded to a new parliamentary office, and are giddy about it.
(13) Photograph: Dreamworks Yelchin wasn’t as classically handsome as Depp; he was easy on the eye without having traditional film-star looks, and I don’t recall his name cropping up in the sort of messageboards bursting with giddy declarations of devotion to Tom Hiddleston or Tom Hardy or Idris Elba.
(14) I was so giddy with success that I stayed for a few drinks and ended up missing my train home.
(15) The authors' findings permit a conclusion that the risk of ethmozine overdosage leading to undesirable side effects (dryness in the mouth, noise in the ears, a 'net' in eyes; giddiness, nausea, vomiting) is very high when routine ethmozine doses are administered to patients with grave (Stages II-III) impairments of liver function; this is explained by (1) reduced rate of ethmozine biotransformation, this resulting in a heightened concentration of the drug in the blood, and (2) by an increase of the drug free fraction concentration due to its reduced ability to bind with the blood plasma proteins.
(16) She shows us photographs of him as a giddy young boy, as a proud paratrooper, and letters in which he talks about how well he’s doing in training.
(17) At last, as the sun dipped behind snow-capped mountains, we rolled down Leadville’s cool, still Main Street, the lack of oxygen making us feel giddy.
(18) A giddy celebration of the “new politics” this conference may officially be, but it is also an old-style beauty contest in which the party is already sizing up the potential contenders for the succession should Uncle Jez fall under a composite motion.
(19) I mean, you weren’t so giddy when The Container Store started trading last week .
(20) A golden moon hung over the city, and as night deepened the crowd lounging off Hope Street grew giddy.
(1) Labour’s vertiginous decline in Scotland has shrivelled what used to be the primary unionist party north of the border.
(2) We report on the therapeutic effect of a combination of piracetam and dihydroergocristine in 55 vertiginous patients, of both sexes, between 20 and 67 years of age, from different causes (not scheduled for surgery).
(3) Vestibular nerve section, however, converts this active lesion to a static peripheral lesion, allowing for brainstem compensation and cessation of optokinetic-induced vertiginous symptoms.
(4) Peripheral labyrinthine abnormalities are responsible for the majority of vertiginous symptoms.
(5) Its infamous clubs – The Viper Room, Whisky A Go Go – are the backdrops for a thousand rock memoirs; its vertiginous hills contain more celebrity homes per square mile than anywhere else in the world.
(6) • Rorbu for four from £140 a night, svinoya.no Grande Hytteutleige, Geirangerfjord Facebook Twitter Pinterest Waterfalls, vertiginous green slopes and a meandering, idyllic waterway explain why Unesco-protected Geirangerfjord is one of Norway’s premier tourist spots.
(7) In the acute, vertiginous phase of the disease, the VOR time constant was reduced but was almost normalized 1 year later, both among patients who regained normal caloric side-difference and among those who did not.
(8) There is no question that dizziness and vertiginous-like symptoms occur in children.
(9) In this group, the 1985 guidelines indicate that only 35% of the patients had significant relief of their vertiginous symptoms and 47% had hearing loss greater than 10 dB postoperatively.
(10) The case of a sixty years old man with vague vertiginous feeling, headache and moderate ocular troubles is presented.
(11) The test was performed in Ménière's disease (16 cases), other vertiginous disorders (23 cases) and normal subjects (10 cases).
(12) Since the vestibulospinal level of vestibular function is frequently neglected in the evaluation of vertiginous patients, we developed a new posture equilibrometer for recording body swaying X (left-right) and Y (fore-aft) components of angular displacement, velocity, and acceleration with its transducer on the head of the subject.
(13) The movement of the body's center of gravity was calculated in normal subjects and in vertiginous patients by using a strain gauge platform system and a ditigal computer.
(14) Afterwards he drove us into the mountains, taking us along vertiginous dirt roads in his 4x4, to the places where he kept his hives.
(15) Berlin: The Land of Cockaigne by Heinrich Mann Mann, brother of Thomas, wrote Berlin in the tradition of the bildungsroman , and the introduction to the 1929 English edition offers fair summary: “Andrew Zumsee rises steadily, jesuitically, through the coarse social strata of bourgeois Berlin, behind the skirts of women, via boudoir wire-pulling, to an hour of vertiginous triumph, or at least an illusion thereof.” Life, as in many of these novels, is speculative: “I don’t know what it is that they call transacting business; but it certainly doesn’t take much time … It’s a lazy man’s Heaven, a perfect land of Cockaigne.” 10.
(16) But with land prices rising vertiginously in overcrowded Delhi, officials say foreign investors are lining up to take part.
(17) You’re getting sacked in the morning,” also came down, unsparingly, from the most vertiginous part of the Leazes End.
(18) It is also true that the stakes couldn’t be more vertiginous for David Cameron.
(19) We observed the same results in other vertiginous disorders.
(20) These results corresponded with the clinical findings that the degree of Lpi increases prior to vertiginous episodes in Meniere's patients.