Meaning

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

    I stood up too fast and felt dizzy.

    schwindelig, schwindlig

    having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling

  2. Producing giddiness.

    We climbed to a dizzy height.

    schwindelerregend

    головокружи́тельныйgolovokružítelʹnyj

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

    My new secretary is a dizzy blonde.

  4. (UK, Yorkshire, dialectal)Simple, half-witted.

Examples

263 sentences
  1. I was starting to feel dizzy.

    Я почав відчувати запаморочення.

    ruЯ начал чувствовать головокружение.

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  2. Tom said that he felt dizzy.

    Том сказав, що в нього паморочиться в голові.

    ruТом сказал, что у него кружится голова.

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  3. Tom said he was starting to get very dizzy.

    Том сказав, що він починає відчувати запаморочення.

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  4. Tom said that he was starting to get very dizzy.

    Том сказав, що він починає відчувати запаморочення.

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  5. Aren't you still dizzy?

    Хіба у тебе все ще не паморочиться в голові?

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
producing giddiness:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
experiencing a sensation of whirling and being unbalanced:
producing giddiness:

Origin

From Middle English dysy, desy, dusi, from Old English dysiġ (“stupid, foolish”), from Pro

From Middle English dysy, desy, dusi, from Old English dysiġ (“stupid, foolish”), from Proto-West Germanic *dusīg (“stunned; dazed”).

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Forms

dizzier, dizziest
Comparativedizzier Lesson
Superlativedizziest Lesson

regular

Synonyms

10 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

12 related words

Collocations

8 patterns
  • feel dizzy
  • a little dizzy
  • felt dizzy
  • to feel dizzy
  • little dizzy
  • feel very dizzy
  • feeling dizzy
  • get dizzy

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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