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swoony

/swuniː/

swoony adjective: tending to swoon (in any sense).

Adjective

swoony (comparative swoonier, superlative swooniest)

  1. Tending to swoon (in any sense).
    • On Thursday’s episode Addison […] turned swoony when a handsome, lecherous colleague kissed her in a stairwell.2007 May 5, Alessandra Stanley, “The New Modern Woman, Ambitious and Feeble”, in New York Times

Forms of swoony

comparativeswoonier
superlativeswooniest

Origin of swoony

From swoon (verb) + -y (verbal suffix meaning “inclined to”).

Words formed from swoony

Questions about swoony

What does swoony mean?
Swoony means tending to swoon (in any sense).
What part of speech is swoony?
Swoony is an adjective.
How do you pronounce swoony?
Swoony is pronounced /swuniː/.

Words near swoony in the dictionary

  1. swoonings
  2. swoonless
  3. swoons
  4. swoonsome
  5. swoonworthy
  6. swoony
  7. swoop
  8. Swoope
  9. swooped
  10. swooper
  11. swoopers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: swoony (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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