dizzyadjective
uk/ˈdɪz.i/us/ˈdɪz.i/dizzy adjective (FEELING)
B2 feeling as if everything is turning around, and that you are not able to balance and may fall down:
Going without sleep for a long time makes me feel dizzy and light-headed.
I felt dizzy with excitement as I went up to collect the award.
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- Someone who is suffering from sunstroke feels dizzy and has a high temperature, but does not sweat.
- Don't look down! You'll get dizzy.
- I keep having/getting dizzy spells.
- It seemed to happen all of a sudden - I felt dizzy and I just collapsed.
- "What were the patient's symptoms?" "She was dizzy and short of breath."
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Headaches & dizziness
- dizziness
- dizzying
- giddy
- hangover
- headache
- headachy
- hungover
- light-headed
- migraine
- muzzy
- sick headache
- spin
- splitting
- swim
- thumping
- tinnitus
- vertiginous
- vertigo
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dizzy adjective (QUALITY)
[ before noun ] confusing and very fast:
Who could have predicted the dizzy pace of change in the country?
informal A dizzy person, especially a woman, is silly:
In the movie, she played the part of a dizzy blonde.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Confusion, confusing and feeling confused
- a chicken and egg situation idiom
- addle
- all of a doodah idiom
- all over the place idiom
- at sea idiom
- brainstorm
- disorientate
- disoriented
- distraction
- dither
- dizziness
- dizzying
- ferment
- flutter
- mystique
- not know what hit you idiom
- not know where/which way to turn idiom
- not know whether to laugh or cry idiom
- not know whether you are coming or going idiom
- whirl
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Stupid and silly
dizzily
adverb uk/ˈdɪz.əl.i/us/ˈdɪz.əl.i/
in a dizzy way or a way that makes you feel dizzy:
The skyscrapers towered dizzily above us.
Idiom(s)
the dizzy heights of sth