'Giddy' definitions:
Definition of 'giddy'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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]
adjective
Lacking seriousness; given to frivolity; "a dizzy blonde"; "light-headed teenagers"; "silly giggles" [syn: airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, featherbrained, giddy, light- headed, lightheaded, silly]
Definition of 'Giddy'
From: GCIDE
- Giddy \Gid"dy\, v. i. To reel; to whirl. --Chapman. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Giddy'
From: GCIDE
- Giddy \Gid"dy\, v. t. To make dizzy or unsteady. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Giddy'
From: GCIDE
- Giddy \Gid"dy\, a. [Compar. Giddier; superl. Giddiest.] [OE. gidi mad, silly, AS. gidig, of unknown origin, cf. Norw. gidda to shake, tremble.] [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- By giddy head and staggering legs betrayed. --Tate. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Promoting or inducing giddiness; as, a giddy height; a giddy precipice. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
- Upon the giddy footing of the hatches. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Bewildering on account of rapid turning; running round with celerity; gyratory; whirling. [1913 Webster]
- The giddy motion of the whirling mill. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Characterized by inconstancy; unstable; changeable; fickle; wild; thoughtless; heedless. "Giddy, foolish hours." --Rowe. "Giddy chance." --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Young heads are giddy and young hearts are warm. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'giddy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- addled,
- adrift,
- afloat,
- alternating,
- amorphous,
- babbling,
- beery,
- bemused,
- besotted,
- blind drunk,
- brainless,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- changeful,
- crapulent,
- crapulous,
- delirious,
- desultory,
- deviable,
- dizzy,
- drenched,
- drunk,
- drunken,
- eccentric,
- empty-headed,
- erratic,
- faint,
- far-gone,
- fast and loose,
- featherbrained,
- featherheaded,
- fickle,
- fitful,
- flickering,
- flighty,
- flitting,
- fluctuating,
- flustered,
- fluttery,
- fou,
- freakish,
- fribble,
- fribbling,
- frivolous,
- full,
- gaga,
- gay,
- giddy-brained,
- giddy-headed,
- giddy-pated,
- giddy-witted,
- glorious,
- happy,
- harebrain,
- harebrained,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- in liquor,
- incoherent,
- inconsistent,
- inconstant,
- indecisive,
- inebriate,
- inebriated,
- inebrious,
- infirm,
- intoxicated,
- irregular,
- irresolute,
- irresponsible,
- jolly,
- light,
- light-headed,
- lightheaded,
- maudlin,
- mazy,
- mellow,
- mercurial,
- merry,
- moody,
- muddled,
- nappy,
- off,
- rambling,
- ranting,
- rattlebrained,
- rattleheaded,
- rattlepated,
- raving,
- reckless,
- reeling,
- restless,
- roving,
- scatterbrained,
- scramblebrained,
- shapeless,
- shatterbrained,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- shikker,
- shuffling,
- silly,
- skittish,
- sodden,
- sotted,
- spasmodic,
- spineless,
- swimming,
- thoughtless,
- tiddly,
- tipsy,
- turned around,
- unaccountable,
- uncertain,
- uncontrolled,
- undependable,
- under the influence,
- undisciplined,
- unfixed,
- unpredictable,
- unreliable,
- unrestrained,
- unsettled,
- unstable,
- unstable as water,
- unstaid,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- vacillating,
- vagrant,
- variable,
- vertiginous,
- vicissitudinary,
- vicissitudinous,
- volatile,
- wandering,
- wanton,
- wavering,
- wavery,
- wavy,
- wayward,
- whimsical,
- wishy-washy,
- witless,
- woozy,
- yeasty