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
This vertiginous rise was fueled by an explosion in demand during the pandemic, encouraged in part by low mortgage rates, and a historic lack of supply in the U.S. housing market.
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Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Apr. 2025
For the actor, what transpires is not an escape from the motherhood plot, but a vertiginous, possibly delusional slide into it.
—Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2025
The tech giant plans to ship more iPhones to the U.S. from India as a short-term way to offset the newly vertiginous levies on goods from China, according to The Wall Street Journal.
—Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
The vertiginous tower’s facade appears to change throughout the day as the color and texture of the terracotta blocks shift in the light.
—Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 4 Apr. 2025
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Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Apr. 2025
For the actor, what transpires is not an escape from the motherhood plot, but a vertiginous, possibly delusional slide into it.
—Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2025
The tech giant plans to ship more iPhones to the U.S. from India as a short-term way to offset the newly vertiginous levies on goods from China, according to The Wall Street Journal.
—Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
The vertiginous tower’s facade appears to change throughout the day as the color and texture of the terracotta blocks shift in the light.
—Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 4 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vertiginous
Adjective
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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
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Castillo’s short novel is a giddy character study of an unpleasant young male type.—
Jasmine Vojdani,
Vulture,
2 June 2025
Adjective
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Signs of dehydration, including: dry mouth and throat, infrequent peeing and feeling dizzy when standing up.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
23 May 2025
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Spinning is what dizzy people do, and Lopez is not that.—
Elizabeth Logan,
Glamour,
12 May 2025
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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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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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“Vertiginous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vertiginous. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.
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