giddie

Adjective

giddy (comparative giddier, superlative giddiest)

1. (predicative) Feeling a sense of spinning in the head, causing a perception of unsteadiness and being about to fall down; dizzy.
   • The man became giddy upon standing up so fast.

   Synonyms:

   fuzzy, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, light-headed, rattleheaded, shoogly, vertiginate, westy, woozy

2. (attributive) Causing or likely to cause dizziness or a feeling of unsteadiness.
   • They climbed to a giddy height.

   Synonyms:

   vertiginous

3. Moving around something or spinning rapidly.
   • To ſpoil Antiquities of hammerd ſteele, / And turn the giddy round of Fortunes vvheele.1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC, signature G3, verso
4. (broadly) Unable to concentrate or think seriously; easily excited; impulsive; also, lightheartedly silly; frivolous.
   • The Biſhop, and the Duke of Gloſters men, / Forbidden late to carry any VVeapon, / Haue fill'd their Pockets full of peeble ſtones; / And banding themſelues in contrary parts, / Doe pelt ſo faſt at one anothers Pate, / That many haue their giddy braynes knockt out: […]1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

   Synonyms:

   brainsick, changeable, feather-headed, flighty, giglot, inconsistent, light-headed, overlight

   1. (broadly, dated) Used as an intensifier.
      • 'E isn't one o' the reg'lar Line, nor 'e isn't one of the crew. / 'E's a kind of a giddy harumfrodite—soldier an' sailor too!1896, Rudyard Kipling, “[Barrack-Room Ballads.] ‘Soldier an’ Sailor Too’.”, in The Seven Seas, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 171
5. (broadly) Joyfully elated; overcome with excitement or happiness.
   • The boy was giddy when he opened his birthday presents.

   Synonyms:

   ecstatic, joyous, air-headed, blissed out, blissful, enrapt, rapt, cock-a-hoop, delighted, elated

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