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
The vertiginous condensing of fiction and nonfiction, of past and present, has a radically destabilizing effect that’s inseparable from the audacity of Lou’s political vision.
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Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2025
Questlove asserts that the risks are actually more vertiginous for a Black performer.
—Wesley Morris, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2025
The 11% decline is slightly less vertiginous than last year’s 13% drop; all told, Comcast has lost 3.748 million video subs since Q3 2022.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
Murnau’s famously arresting use of shadows to visualize the vampire’s defiling reach is reimagined when those shadows in this new version extend themselves in a 360-degree pan that evokes their vertiginous inescapability.
—Jim Shepard, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
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Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2025
Questlove asserts that the risks are actually more vertiginous for a Black performer.
—Wesley Morris, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2025
The 11% decline is slightly less vertiginous than last year’s 13% drop; all told, Comcast has lost 3.748 million video subs since Q3 2022.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
Murnau’s famously arresting use of shadows to visualize the vampire’s defiling reach is reimagined when those shadows in this new version extend themselves in a 360-degree pan that evokes their vertiginous inescapability.
—Jim Shepard, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vertiginous
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The Front Range faithful who two summers ago lined the streets of downtown Denver, giddy to the last.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
12 Apr. 2025
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By turns giddy, anxious, and despairing, these poems have endeared him to generations of ordinary readers who find in the tempestuous and ultimately brokenhearted poet a strikingly modern and profoundly accessible figure.—
Daniel Mendelsohn,
New Yorker,
31 Mar. 2025
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Arielle appears to have repeatedly expressed her unease with the hike, including the steep height and feeling dizzy after taking a photo on a tree.—
Samira Asma-Sadeque,
People.com,
1 Apr. 2025
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Back in 2023, Skrillex resurfaced unexpectedly with two new albums at once—Quest for Fire and Don’t Get Too Close—to showcase how his rattling bass juggernauts had evolved and his newfound grasp on dizzy emo-rap had tightened.—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
1 Apr. 2025
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Related Stories That this tragedy took place on Hollywood’s doorstep adds a woozy, surreal element.—
James Hibberd,
The Hollywood Reporter,
17 Jan. 2025
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There was a woozy unreality about that first glimpse.—
Peter Ross,
Smithsonian Magazine,
8 Jan. 2025
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“Vertiginous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vertiginous. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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