giddy
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Tính từ
adjective- 1.
(predicative)(predicative only) Feeling a sense of spinning in the head, causing a perception of unsteadiness and being about to fall down; dizzy.
The man became giddy upon standing up so fast.
Đồng nghĩa: fuzzy, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, light-headed, rattleheaded, shoogly, vertiginate, westy, woozy
- 2.
(attributive)Causing or likely to cause dizziness or a feeling of unsteadiness.
They climbed to a giddy height.
Đồng nghĩa: vertiginous
- 3.
Moving around something or spinning rapidly.
- 4.
(broadly)Unable to concentrate or think seriously; easily excited; impulsive; also, lightheartedly silly; frivolous.
Đồng nghĩa: brainsick, changeable, feather-headed, flighty, giglot, inconsistent, light-headed, overlight
- 5.
(broadly)Joyfully elated; overcome with excitement or happiness.
The boy was giddy when he opened his birthday presents.
Đồng nghĩa: ecstatic, joyous, air-headed, blissed out, blissful, enrapt, rapt, cock-a-hoop, delighted, ecstatic, elated, euphoric, exultant, filled with happiness, giddy, gladsome, gleeful, greatly pleased, joyful, joyous, lighthearted, orgasmic, on cloud nine, over the moon, overjoyed, thrilled, walking on air
- 6.
(British, broadly, dialectal)Feeling great anger; furious, raging.
- 7.
(British, dialectal)(British, dialectal, agriculture, veterinary medicine) Of an animal, chiefly a sheep: affected by gid (“a disease caused by parasitic infestation of the brain by tapeworm larvae”), which may result in the animal turning around aimlessly.
- 8.
(figuratively, obsolete)Of a thing, especially a ship: unsteady, as if dizzy.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(archaic)Someone or something that is frivolous or impulsive.
- 2.
(British, archaic)(British, agriculture, veterinary medicine) Synonym of gid (“a disease caused by parasitic infestation of the brain by tapeworm larvae”).
Đồng nghĩa: gid
Động từ
verb- 1.
(archaic, transitive)To make (someone or something) dizzy or unsteady; to dizzy.
- 2.
(archaic, intransitive)To become dizzy or unsteady.
- 3.
(archaic, intransitive, obsolete)To move around something or spin rapidly; to reel; to whirl.
Đồng nghĩa: vertiginate
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ine-pro The adjective is derived from Middle English gidi, gedy, gydy, from Old English gidiġ, gydiġ (possessed by a demon or spirit, insane, mad), from *gudīg (ghostly, spirited), from *god (god) + *-ig, *-g. The English word is analysable as god + -y.