as in dizzy
having a feeling of being whirled about and in danger of falling down the planetarium's dazzling light show left my head swimmy with delight

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Recent Examples of swimmy This is the swimmy feeling of first falling in love set to sound. Kat Bein, Billboard, 15 Nov. 2017 Through the opening movements of Rachmaninoff’s glorious Vespers music, Joe Milller’s 194-voice Westminster Symphonic Choir sounded mushy at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle, awash in swimmy acoustics. New York Times, 10 Feb. 2017
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Adjective
  • Signs of dehydration, including: dry mouth and throat, infrequent peeing and feeling dizzy when standing up.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 23 May 2025
  • Spinning is what dizzy people do, and Lopez is not that.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 12 May 2025
Adjective
  • Attendees had the chance to film themselves posing against the canola field backdrop from When Life Gives You Tangerines or jumping high into the air like a giddy Thanos with the aid of a Squid Game trampoline.
    Regina Kim, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
  • Castillo’s short novel is a giddy character study of an unpleasant young male type.
    Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 2 June 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • That Jia could make anything out of that flotsam and jetsam is astonishing, but his ability to not only recreate those time frames but craft all of it into a woozy, free-floating memory piece is miraculous.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2025

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“Swimmy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swimmy. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.

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