What does "dizzy" mean?
Dizzy: Causing, or tending to cause, giddiness or vertigo. To climb from the brink of Fleet Ditch by a dizzy ladder. Macaulay.
Additional senses
- 2.Without distinct thought; unreflecting; thoughtless; heedless. "The dizzy multitude." Milton.
- 3.To make dizzy or giddy; to give the vertigo to; to confuse. If the jangling of thy bells had not dizzied thy understanding. Sir W. Scott.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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