dizzy

1 having a feeling of being whirled about and in danger of falling down I felt very dizzy after I got off of the roller coaster Synonyms aswoon, giddy, light-headed, reeling, swimmy, vertiginous, whirling, woozy Related Words faint, weak; addled, befuddled, confused, dazed, groggy Near Antonyms clearheaded; stable, steady

2 suffering from mental confusion he felt dizzy from trying to remember all of the dates and names that were sure to be asked on the test Synonyms addle, addled, addlepated, bedeviled, befogged, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, bushed [chiefly Australian], confounded, confused, dazed, distracted, dopey (also dopy), fogged, mixed-up, muddleheaded, muzzy, pixilated (also pixillated), punch-drunk, punchy, raddled, shell-shocked, silly, slaphappy, spaced-out (or spaced), spacey (also spacy), stunned, stupefied, zonked, zonked-out Related Words senseless, unconscious Phrases at sea, out of it Near Antonyms alert, conscious Antonyms clearheaded, unconfused

3 moving, proceeding, or acting with great speed prices climbing at a dizzy rate Synonyms blistering, breakneck, breathless, brisk, fast, fleet, fleet-footed, flying, galloping, hasty, hot, lightning, nippy, quick, rapid, rapid-fire, rattling, snappy, speedy, splitting, swift, whirlwind, zippyRelated Words expeditious, prompt, ready; accelerated, hastened, hurried, quickened, rushed; breathtaking; energetic, strenuous, strong, vigorous; high-speed; rush; ultrafast, ultrarapidNear Antonyms crawling, dallying, dawdling, dillydallying, dragging, laggard, languid, lingering, plodding, poking, poky (or pokey), slowish, sluggish, unhurried; deliberate, leisurely, measured; dilatory, late, tardy; ultraslowAntonyms slow

4 lacking in seriousness or maturity Marilyn Monroe never entirely succeeded in shaking off her dizzy blonde image Synonyms birdbrained, ditzy (or ditsy), giddy, featherbrained, flighty, frivolous, frothy, futile, goofy, harebrained, light-headed, light-minded, puerile, scatterbrained, silly, yeastyRelated Words fatuous, foolish, inane, nonsensical, thoughtless, witless; crazy, daffy, daft, fruity; exuberant, flippant, fluttery, giggly, happy, light, lighthearted, playful; sappy, shallow, superficialNear Antonyms grave, melancholy, somber (or sombre), thoughtful; dignified, heavy, no-nonsense, sedate, severe, solemn, staidAntonyms earnest, serious, serious-minded, sober, unfrivolous