dizzy
Plural: dizzies
Verb
Verb Forms: dizzied, dizzying, dizzies
- To make someone feel unsteady, confused, or lightheaded.
- make dizzy or giddy
- "a dizzying pace"
- To make (someone or something) dizzy; to bewilder.
Adjective Satellite
- having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling
- "had a dizzy spell"
- "a dizzy pinnacle"
- lacking seriousness; given to frivolity
- "a dizzy blonde"
Adj
- Experiencing a sensation of whirling and of being giddy, unbalanced, or lightheaded.
- Producing giddiness.
- Empty-headed, scatterbrained or frivolous; ditzy.
- simple, half-witted.
Noun
- A distributor (device in internal combustion engine).
Adjective
- Having a sensation of spinning or losing balance; lightheaded.
Examples
- His sudden, unexpected bingo was enough to DIZZY his opponent.
- I stood up too fast and felt dizzy.
- My new secretary is a dizzy blonde.
- That triple-triple word score left her feeling DIZZY with excitement.
- We climbed to a dizzy height.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English dysy, desy, dusi, from Old English dysiġ (“stupid, foolish”), from Proto-West Germanic *dusīg (“stunned; dazed”), likely from the root of Proto-Germanic *dwēsaz (“foolish, stupid”).
Akin to West Frisian dize (“fog”), Dutch deusig, duizig (“dizzy”), duizelig (“dizzy”), German dösig (“sleepy; stupid”).
Synonyms
airheaded, empty-headed, featherbrained, giddy, light-headed, lightheaded, silly, vertiginous, woozy, dizzying
Scrabble Score: 27
dizzy: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Worddizzy: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
dizzy: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary