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dizzy

UK/ˈdɪzi/

dizzy adjective: experiencing a sensation of whirling and of being giddy, unbalanced, or lightheaded.

Adjective

dizzy (comparative dizzier, superlative dizziest)

  1. Experiencing a sensation of whirling and of being giddy, unbalanced, or lightheaded.
    • I stood up too fast and felt dizzy.
    • Alas! his brain was dizzy.1627, Michaell [i.e., Michael] Drayton, “Nimphidia. The Court of Fayrie.”, in The Battaile of Agincourt. […], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for William Lee, […], →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    woozy
  2. Producing giddiness.
    • We climbed to a dizzy height.
    • To climb from the brink of Fleet Ditch by a dizzy ladder.1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green...
    Synonyms:
    dizzying
  3. Empty-headed, scatterbrained or frivolous; ditzy.
    • My new secretary is a dizzy blonde.
    • the dizzy multitude1671, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC
  4. (UK, Yorkshire, dialectal) simple, half-witted.
    • Them as diz ’at is dizzy.1952, Albert Lyon Hoy, An Etymologal Glossary of the East Yorkshire Dialect

Verb

dizzy (third-person singular simple present dizzies, present participle dizzying, simple past and past participle dizzied)

  1. (transitive) To make (someone or something) dizzy; to bewilder.
    • 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 […]1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
    • If the jangling of thy bells had not dizzied thy understanding.1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co....

Noun

dizzy (plural dizzies)

  1. (slang) A distributor (device in internal combustion engine).
    • 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.2005, Roger Williams, How to Give Your MGB V8 Power, page 201

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Dizzy

Dizzy

  1. (UK, humorous, slang) Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881), 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, and twice prime minister of the United Kingdom.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Dizzy

Dizzy (plural Dizzys or Dizzies)

  1. A nickname.

dizzy meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

dizzy in Tamil

தலை சுற்றும், மயக்கமான, மயக்கம், தலைசுற்றுகிற

dizzy in Urdu

dizzy
مورکھ mūrkh

dizzy in Bengali

মাথা ঘোরা, অবসন্ন

dizzy in Malayalam

തലതിരിച്ചിൽ, തലചുറ്റലുളള, തലകറക്കമുളള, മോഹാലസ്യജനകമായ
More languagesFewer languages
dizzy in Kannada
ತಲೆತಿರುಗುವ, ತಲೆಸುತ್ತು ಬರಿಸುವ, ತತ್ತರಿಸುವ, ತೂರಾಡುವ
dizzy in Arabic
دَائِخ dāʔiḵ
dizzy in Malay
kepala pusing
dizzy in Indonesian
pusing
dizzy in Persian
گیج gij
dizzy in Myanmar
မူး mu:

Examples of dizzy in a sentence

  • I felt fluey this morning: all bunged up, achey, dizzy and tired.
  • I felt dizzy and fainting at places, but I still made it to the finish line.
  • The salesman presented me with a dizzying array of choices, and I was hard pressed to choose between them.

All 40 example sentences with dizzy

Synonyms of dizzy

Forms of dizzy

Adjective
comparativedizzier
superlativedizziest
alternative formdizzie
Verb
third-person singular presentdizzies
present participledizzying
past participledizzied
pastdizzied
Noun
pluraldizzies
Proper noun
pluralDizzys
pluralDizzies

Origin of dizzy

From Middle English dysy, desy, dusi, from Old English dysiġ (“stupid, foolish”), from Proto-West Germanic *dusīg (“stunned; dazed”). Akin to West Frisian dize (“fog”), Dutch deusig, duizig (“dizzy”), duizelig (“dizzy”), German dösig (“sleepy; stupid”).

Words formed from dizzy

Words that rhyme with dizzy

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Questions about dizzy

What does dizzy mean?
Dizzy means experiencing a sensation of whirling and of being giddy, unbalanced, or lightheaded.
What is dizzy in Tamil?
Dizzy in Tamil is தலை சுற்றும், மயக்கமான, மயக்கம். See Dizzy meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is dizzy?
Dizzy can be an adjective, a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce dizzy?
Dizzy is pronounced /ˈdɪzi/ (UK).

Words near dizzy in the dictionary

  1. dizzifying
  2. dizzily
  3. dizziness
  4. dizzinesses
  5. dizzing
  6. dizzy
  7. dizzy bat
  8. dizzy izzy
  9. dizzy limit
  10. dizzying
  11. dizzyingly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dizzy (page history and authors); Dizzy (page history and authors); dizzy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); مورکھ (Urdu) (page history and authors); dizzy (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dizzy (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dizzy (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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