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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling;
- Example: "had a dizzy spell"
- Example: "a dizzy pinnacle"
- Example: "had a headache and felt giddy"
- Example: "a giddy precipice"
- Example: "feeling woozy from the blow on his head"
- Example: "a vertiginous climb up the face of the cliff"
[syn: dizzy, giddy, woozy, vertiginous]

2. lacking seriousness; given to frivolity;
- Example: "a dizzy blonde"
- Example: "light-headed teenagers"
- Example: "silly giggles"
[syn: airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, featherbrained, giddy, light-headed, lightheaded, silly]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Giddy \Gid"dy\, a. [Compar. Giddier; superl. Giddiest.] [OE.
   gidi mad, silly, AS. gidig, of unknown origin, cf. Norw.
   gidda to shake, tremble.]
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   1. Having in the head a sensation of whirling or reeling
      about; having lost the power of preserving the balance of
      the body, and therefore wavering and inclined to fall;
      lightheaded; dizzy.
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            By giddy head and staggering legs betrayed. --Tate.
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   2. Promoting or inducing giddiness; as, a giddy height; a
      giddy precipice. --Prior.
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            Upon the giddy footing of the hatches. --Shak.
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   3. Bewildering on account of rapid turning; running round
      with celerity; gyratory; whirling.
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            The giddy motion of the whirling mill. --Pope.
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   4. Characterized by inconstancy; unstable; changeable;
      fickle; wild; thoughtless; heedless. "Giddy, foolish
      hours." --Rowe. "Giddy chance." --Dryden.
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            Young heads are giddy and young hearts are warm.
                                                  --Cowper.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Giddy \Gid"dy\, v. i.
   To reel; to whirl. --Chapman.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Giddy \Gid"dy\, v. t.
   To make dizzy or unsteady. [Obs.]
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

giddy
    adj 1: having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to
           falling; "had a dizzy spell"; "a dizzy pinnacle"; "had a
           headache and felt giddy"; "a giddy precipice"; "feeling
           woozy from the blow on his head"; "a vertiginous climb up
           the face of the cliff" [syn: dizzy, giddy, woozy,
           vertiginous]
    2: lacking seriousness; given to frivolity; "a dizzy blonde";
       "light-headed teenagers"; "silly giggles" [syn: airheaded,
       dizzy, empty-headed, featherbrained, giddy, light-
       headed, lightheaded, silly]