as in giddy
having a feeling of being whirled about and in danger of falling down
a 3-D effect that is likely to leave some audience members feeling vertiginous
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Recent Examples of vertiginous
By our reckoning, future scholars of tennis’s vertiginous rise in prestige—with investment by luxury brands both the cause and the effect—may well cite, as another major catalytic moment, one from a few years earlier.
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Nick Scott, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2024
Wells is attempting to capture the vertiginous pull of history, perhaps best expressed in Round Quilt (1987), in which a circular pool of various fabrics seems to be swirling down a drain.
—Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2024
Following, 10 takeaways from what looks like its biggest edition ever in star wattage, the caliber of Spanish filmmaking, and the number of deals reported by Variety, set in the context of vertiginous change in international independent film and TV landscape.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 27 Sep. 2024
Anger, moving through multiple levels of fiction and documentary with a vertiginous rapidity, turns a story about process into a new cinematic process in itself.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2024
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Nick Scott, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2024
Wells is attempting to capture the vertiginous pull of history, perhaps best expressed in Round Quilt (1987), in which a circular pool of various fabrics seems to be swirling down a drain.
—Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2024
Following, 10 takeaways from what looks like its biggest edition ever in star wattage, the caliber of Spanish filmmaking, and the number of deals reported by Variety, set in the context of vertiginous change in international independent film and TV landscape.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 27 Sep. 2024
Anger, moving through multiple levels of fiction and documentary with a vertiginous rapidity, turns a story about process into a new cinematic process in itself.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vertiginous
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On 10 nights each season, the Brothers Manning pile into their Monday Night Football sidecar, offering football junkies a bracing dose of hardcore X’s and O’s that’s regularly leavened by an almost giddy irreverence.Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 6 Dec. 2024
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Miss Pettigrew can be a bit too giddy for its own good, but Adams matches that flamboyance at every giggly step.Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
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Angela Craig had reported feeling dizzy and weak but doctors could not determine the cause.CNN, CNN, 1 Dec. 2024
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Being disoriented, being dizzy, but the little things like just sitting in a hard chair.Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Nov. 2024
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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
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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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“Vertiginous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vertiginous. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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