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giddy

adjective

1 giddy

Having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling:
— Had a headache and felt giddy.
— A giddy precipice.

synonyms: dizzy, vertiginous, woozy.

Roget 699: unskillful etc. 698; inexpert; bungling etc. v.; awkward, clumsy, unhandy, lubberly, gauche, maladroit; ... show more

Roget 608: capricious; erratic, eccentric, fitful, hysterical; full of whims etc. n.; maggoty; inconsistent, fanciful, fantastic, whimsical, crotchety, ... show more

Roget 605: irresolute, infirm of purpose, double-minded, half-hearted; undecided, unresolved, undetermined; shilly-shally; fidgety, tremulous; hesitating etc. v.; off one's balance; ... show more

Roget 863: rash, incautious, indiscreet; imprudent, improvident, temerarious; uncalculating; heedless; careless etc. (neglectful) 460; without ballast, heels over head, ... show more

Roget 458: inattentive; unobservant, unmindful, heedless, unthinking, unheeding, undiscerning; inadvertent; mindless, regardless, respectless, listless etc. (indifferent) ... show more

2 giddy

Lacking seriousness; given to frivolity.

synonyms: airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, featherbrained, light-headed, lightheaded, silly.

Roget 503: insane, mad, lunatic, loony [Coll.]; crazy, crazed, aliene, non compos mentis; not right, cracked, touched; bereft of reason; all possessed, ... show more

Roget 499: unintelligent [Applied to persons], unintellectual, unreasoning; mindless, witless, reasoningless, brainless; halfbaked; having no head etc. 498; not bright etc. ... show more


Moby thesaurus: addled, adrift, afloat, alternating, amorphous, babbling, beery, bemused, besotted, blind drunk, brainless, capricious, changeable, changeful, crapulent, crapulous, delirious, desultory, deviable, dizzy ... show more.

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