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 finance drama, created by lapsed investment bankers Mickey Down and Konrad Kay, details the vertiginous rise and dizzying crash of the high-stakes trading world of the prestigious firm Pierpoint and its power-hungry upstarts. Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 29 May 2025 Too small for there ever to be an airport, this 40-square-mile outcrop of vertiginous cliffs surrounded by churning ocean is only reachable via a berth on one of the South African fishing vessels that come to collect the crayfish. The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 23 May 2025 At last, a glass-walled elevator to the restaurant will shoot you upward at thrill-ride speed, hurtling through the hotel’s vertiginous atrium, past the open-plan gym and seemingly endless hotel-room floors, before opening onto the smiling faces of hosts behind a reception desk. Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 18 May 2025 The individual tiles and reinforcement bars create a striking impression of an enthralling and vertiginous centrifugal motion. Tara Anne Dalbow, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for vertiginous
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Adjective
  • This is for sure: Acuna makes just $17 million per year despite everything, and Braves officials are beyond giddy.
    Terence Moore, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • Pixar’s first feature is still the template for every great movie the studio has made since: earned emotions; ripping action sequences; dead-on insights into human nature; and lots of giddy, witty, silly laughs.
    Will Leitch, Vulture, 19 June 2025
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  • If that happens, a person may become confused and dizzy, and feel faint.
    Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 19 June 2025
  • But experiencing random dizzy spells throughout the day is nothing short of unnerving.
    Rachel Nall, SELF, 17 June 2025
Adjective
  • Dowd, who had been woozy in the immediate aftermath of the play, left the game an inning later.
    Shotgun Spratling, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2025
  • The tone shifts, though, becoming myopic and even a little queasy once the film leaves high school behind and heads deeper into the forest, literally and figuratively, a shift that mimics the swoony, woozy, consumptive rush of first love — just what Hardwicke intended to capture.
    Bruce Handy, Vulture, 20 May 2025

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“Vertiginous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vertiginous. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.

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