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
Financial markets – which are dominated by US equities (over 65% of world market cap), are starting 2025 from a vertiginous place.
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Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
At the same time, its writers are clearly going for Melville’s roiling depths and vertiginous existential heights.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
Archival film reels captured slices of the sugarcane industry in Java, first established by the Dutch and continuing under Suharto’s regime, coalescing into a kaleidoscopic and vertiginous rereading of the colonial past and an interrogation of historical specters.
—Hung Duong, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2024
Of course, framing it this way overlooks the vertiginous course the Mets traversed to get here.
—Tim Britton, The Athletic, 18 July 2024
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Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
At the same time, its writers are clearly going for Melville’s roiling depths and vertiginous existential heights.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
Archival film reels captured slices of the sugarcane industry in Java, first established by the Dutch and continuing under Suharto’s regime, coalescing into a kaleidoscopic and vertiginous rereading of the colonial past and an interrogation of historical specters.
—Hung Duong, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2024
Of course, framing it this way overlooks the vertiginous course the Mets traversed to get here.
—Tim Britton, The Athletic, 18 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vertiginous
Adjective
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Other tribes of music-heads danced through dawn on muddy hillsides, barely sleeping or eating through the driving rain, dazed but giddy to take part in a massive, improbable event.Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2025
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Our mammoth game is the last one, which just has to make the NFL schedule-makers giddy.Chris Branch, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
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Her complaints of feeling dizzy and experiencing numbness in her limbs were put down to dehydration.Latoya Gayle, People.com, 24 Dec. 2024
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In an emotional retelling, Foxx remembers being dizzy, frustrated, and stubbornly resistant to both physical and mental therapy.Krystie Lee Yandoli, Rolling Stone, 11 Dec. 2024
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There was a woozy unreality about that first glimpse.Peter Ross, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
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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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“Vertiginous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vertiginous. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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