Definizione monolingua

dizzy

dizzy (third-person singular simple present dizzies, present participle dizzying, simple past and past participle dizzied)

1. (transitive) To make dizzy, to bewilder.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 161:

     Let me have this violence and compulsion removed, there is nothing that, in my seeming, doth more bastardise and dizzie a wel-borne and gentle nature [...].

dizzy (comparative dizzier, superlative dizziest)

1. having a sensation of turning around; giddy; feeling unbalanced or lightheaded.

   I stood up too fast and felt dizzy.

2. producing giddiness

   We climbed to a dizzy height.

   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IX

     ...faintly from the valley far below came an unmistakable sound which brought me to my feet, trembling with excitement, to peer eagerly downward from my dizzy ledge.

3. empty-headed, scatterbrained or frivolous

   My new secretary is a dizzy blonde.

Definizione dizionario dizzy

vertiginoso

Altri significati:

A state in which a group of people is continuously making silly jokes, that can nevertheless lead to laughing fits as a reaction. Under the right circumstances, the state can maintain itself or be induced in others contageously. The use of weed (Cannabis sativa) promotes the state in some individuals, but it can also be induced by a joke or reference to an (earlier) funny event.

having a sensation of turning around

producing giddiness

(transitive) To make dizzy, to bewilder.

having a sensation of turning around; giddy; feeling unbalanced or lightheaded.

Having a sensation of whirling and a tendency to fall.