as in dizzy
having a feeling of being whirled about and in danger of falling down the planetarium's dazzling light show left my head swimmy with delight

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Recent Examples of swimmy This is the swimmy feeling of first falling in love set to sound. Kat Bein, Billboard, 15 Nov. 2017 Through the opening movements of Rachmaninoff’s glorious Vespers music, Joe Milller’s 194-voice Westminster Symphonic Choir sounded mushy at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle, awash in swimmy acoustics. New York Times, 10 Feb. 2017
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Adjective
  • My pulse kept racing; my mouth went dry and prickly; dizzy spells came on.
    George Packer, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The 38-year-old ski mountaineer felt weak and dizzy.
    Anna Callaghan, Outside Online, 23 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Illinois Speaker of the House Chris Welch is downright giddy about state Democrats' chances to increase their supermajority.
    Justin Kaufmann, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
  • So far that's what's happening in Wyoming, Ohio, a fact that left police clerk Jessica Eastham sounding nearly giddy Friday morning.
    Amber Hunt, The Enquirer, 28 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • In Jack Antonoff’s hands, what Malin envisioned as a hard-charging rock number becomes a woozy, atmospheric trip immersed in reverb and layered vocals, and sets the tone for an album where reinvention is encouraged.
    Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2024
  • Music City then was always woozy from two shots of rot gut whiskey and an angry call from a jilted lover across town.
    Keith Sharon, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2024

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“Swimmy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swimmy. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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