dizzy — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Experiencing a sensation of whirling and of being giddy, unbalanced, or lightheaded.

   Synonyms

   woozy

   Examples

   I stood up too fast and felt dizzy.

   Alas! his brain was dizzy.

2. Producing giddiness.

   Synonyms

   dizzying

   Examples

   We climbed to a dizzy height.

   To climb from the brink of Fleet Ditch by a dizzy ladder.

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   ...faintly from the valley far below came an unmistakable sound which brought me to my feet, trembling with excitement, to peer eagerly downward from my dizzy ledge.

3. Empty-headed, scatterbrained or frivolous; ditzy.

   Examples

   My new secretary is a dizzy blonde.

   the dizzy multitude

4. simple, half-witted.

   Usage

   • UK usage
   • Yorkshire
   • dialectal

   Examples

   Them as diz ’at is dizzy.

Verb

1. To make (someone or something) dizzy; to bewilder.

   Usage

   • Transitive

   Examples

   Let me have this violence and compulsion removed, there is nothing that, in my seeming, doth more bastardise and dizzie a wel-borne and gentle nature […]

   If the jangling of thy bells had not dizzied thy understanding.

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   So ramshackle was the locals' attempt at defence that, with energetic wingers pouring into the space behind panicked full-backs and centre-halves dizzied by England's movement, it was cruel to behold at times. The contest did not extend beyond the half-hour mark.

Noun

1. A distributor (device in internal combustion engine).

   Usage

   • Slang

   Examples

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   A service exchange distributor usually needs to be ordered by a motor factor and cost £150-200! I would suggest you use the SD1 dizzy body/cap etc but change the trigger mechanism to a modern electronic/breakerless unit such as the Newtronic unit.

Adjective

1. having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling

   Synonyms

   giddywoozyvertiginous

   Examples

   had a dizzy spell

   a dizzy pinnacle

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   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

2. lacking seriousness; given to frivolity

   Synonyms

   airheadedempty-headedfeatherbrainedgiddylight-headedlightheadedsilly

   Examples

   a dizzy blonde

   light-headed teenagers

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   silly giggles

Verb

1. make dizzy or giddy

   Broader terms

   changealtermodify

   Examples

   a dizzying pace