giddy[adjective]Synonyms: dizzy, dizzying, faint, light-headed, reeling, unsteady, vertiginous
Contrasted words: earnest, pensive, sedate, serious, sober, solemn, staid, thoughtful
Related Idioms: giddy as a goose, going around in circles, like a chicken with its head cut off, seeing double
Related Words: capricious,
fickle,
impulsive,
whimsical,
brainless,
exuberant,
thoughtless,
witless,
bemused,
flustered [TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲
gid‧dy /ˈɡɪdi/
adjective[
Language: Old English;
Origin: gydig 'mentally ill']
1. feeling slightly sick and unable to balance, because everything seems to be moving
Synonym : dizzy:
Greg stared down from the seventh floor and began to feel giddy.2. feeling silly, happy, and excited, or showing this feeling
giddy with Sheila felt giddy with excitement.3. giddy heights a situation in which you have a lot of success:
Although she had been quite a successful model, she had never reached the giddy heights of the Paris fashion world.4. old-fashioned silly and not interested in serious things:
Fiona’s very pretty but a bit giddy.—giddily adverb—giddiness noun [uncountable] [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲