vertigo
UK/ˈvɜːtɪɡəʊ//ˈvɝtɪɡoʊ/
vertigo noun: a sensation of whirling and loss of balance, caused by looking down from a great height or by disease affecting the inner ear.
Noun
vertigo (countable and uncountable, plural vertigos or vertigoes)
- A sensation of whirling and loss of balance, caused by looking down from a great height or by disease affecting the inner ear.
- A disordered or imbalanced state of mind or things analogous to physical vertigo; mental giddiness or dizziness.
- The act of whirling round and round; rapid rotation.
- A snail of the genus Vertigo.
vertigo meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
vertigo in Hindi
- sensation of whirling and loss of balance
- चक्कर cakkar
vertigo in Tamil
- கிறக்கம், கிறுகிறுப்பு, தலைசுற்றல், தலைச்சுற்றல், தலைச்சுழற்றல்
vertigo in Urdu
- sensation of whirling and loss of balance
- چکر cakkar
vertigo in Bengali
- ঘূর্ণি রোগ
More languagesFewer languages
- vertigo in Telugu
- వెర్టిగో
- vertigo in Malayalam
- തലകറക്കം, തലചുറ്റ്, ഭ്രമം, ഭ്രമണം
- vertigo in Kannada
- ತಲೆತಿರುಗುವಿಕೆ, ತಲೆಸುತ್ತು, ಬವಳಿ, ಗಿರಕಿ
- vertigo in Punjabi
- ਚੱਕਰ cakkar
- vertigo in Nepali
- वर्टिगो
- vertigo in Tagalog
- lula
- vertigo in Arabic
- دَوْخَة dawḵa, دُوَار duwār, سَدَر sadar, سَدَارَة sadāra
- vertigo in Persian
- سرگیجه sargije
- vertigo in Vietnamese
- chóng mặt
Examples of vertigo in a sentence
- The otorhinolaryngologist performed an Epley maneuver and the patient was relieved of his vertigo.
- Something reeled drunkenly in the adyt of his mind, a vertigo.
- I needed some Pepto Bismol; I was experiencing a serious case of ideological vertigo.
Synonyms of vertigo
Forms of vertigo
| plural | vertigos |
|---|---|
| plural | vertigoes |
Origin of vertigo
Borrowed from Latin vertīgō.
Words formed from vertigo
Questions about vertigo
- What does vertigo mean?
- Vertigo means a sensation of whirling and loss of balance, caused by looking down from a great height or by disease affecting the inner ear.
- What is vertigo in Hindi?
- Vertigo in Hindi is चक्कर (cakkar). See Vertigo meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is vertigo?
- Vertigo is a noun.
- How do you pronounce vertigo?
- Vertigo is pronounced /ˈvɜːtɪɡəʊ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of vertigo?
- The plural of vertigo is vertigos.
Words near vertigo in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: vertigo (page history and authors); vertigo (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vertigo (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vertigo (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); vertigo (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); vertigo (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਚੱਕਰ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); vertigo (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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