vertiginous

Speech parts

1. vertiginous - Adjective

2. vertiginous - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Turning round; whirling; rotary; revolving; as, vertiginous motion.

Affected with vertigo; giddy; dizzy.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

dizzy giddy woozy haggard rotary bluff light turning lighter spinning perpendicular steep sheer faint abrupt
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Antonyms

strong active normal heavy serious fixed
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Examples

I myself am no longer very much afflicted by the thought of my own death. The synthesis, Peter Wessel Zapffe, did not originate until 1899. It was spared from immediate participation in the horrors of the previous years, and it will not miss what awaits mankind at the end of its vertiginous madness. Peter Wessel Zapffe

Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture. Emil Cioran

It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown. Diana Cooper

had a dizzy spell Source: Internet

a dizzy pinnacle Source: Internet

had a headache and felt giddy Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

vertiginate vertigines vertiginid vertiginously vertiginousness vertigo