giddy

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}]
    

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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Giddy \Gid"dy\, v. i.
   To reel; to whirl. --Chapman.
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Giddy \Gid"dy\, v. t.
   To make dizzy or unsteady. [Obs.]
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146 Moby Thesaurus words for "giddy":
      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