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
Murakami is a sentimentalist at heart, and the novel isn’t shy about reminding readers that its titular walls are a metaphor, in part, for the similarly vertiginous barriers that separate one human heart from another.
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Bailey Trela, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
Fair enough: this was a period in time when the world’s most glamorous women were trotting about in vertiginous Saint Laurent Tributes and patent Louboutin Lady Peeps.
—Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2025
Steel beams arrived in the 1880s, launching an era of vertiginous skyscraper growth.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 8 Jan. 2025
Even a $170 million defamation lawsuit against Netflix filed by the woman claiming to be the real Martha, hasn’t stopped the duo’s vertiginous rise through Hollywood, garnering Emmy and Golden Globe noms and, for Gadd, a lucrative first-look deal with the streamer.
—Alex Ritman, Variety, 26 Dec. 2024
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Bailey Trela, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
Fair enough: this was a period in time when the world’s most glamorous women were trotting about in vertiginous Saint Laurent Tributes and patent Louboutin Lady Peeps.
—Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2025
Steel beams arrived in the 1880s, launching an era of vertiginous skyscraper growth.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 8 Jan. 2025
Even a $170 million defamation lawsuit against Netflix filed by the woman claiming to be the real Martha, hasn’t stopped the duo’s vertiginous rise through Hollywood, garnering Emmy and Golden Globe noms and, for Gadd, a lucrative first-look deal with the streamer.
—Alex Ritman, Variety, 26 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vertiginous
Adjective
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The crowd got loose and giddy as Dončić was introduced last, conspicuously after LeBron James.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
The Athletic,
12 Feb. 2025
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The movie concludes with a twenty-two-minute take that’s too giddy a jolt to spoil.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
5 Feb. 2025
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Now, these two Englishmen turn their attention to the dizzy industry heights of Los Angeles — where Park has claimed victory four times before, of course — with stops at the animation world’s Annie Awards and the BAFTAs on the way.—
Lily Ford,
The Hollywood Reporter,
10 Feb. 2025
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Foreman tumbled downward in a dizzy, slow-motion-like crash, full-weight, a helpless giant, insensible.—
Mikal Gilmore,
Rolling Stone,
17 Jan. 2025
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Related Stories That this tragedy took place on Hollywood’s doorstep adds a woozy, surreal element.—
James Hibberd,
The Hollywood Reporter,
17 Jan. 2025
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There was a woozy unreality about that first glimpse.—
Peter Ross,
Smithsonian Magazine,
8 Jan. 2025
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“Vertiginous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vertiginous. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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