as in giddy
having a feeling of being whirled about and in danger of falling down
a 3-D effect that is likely to leave some audience members feeling vertiginous
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Recent Examples of vertiginous
For some time, Manhattan’s private-club scene has experienced vertiginous growth.
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Andrew Zucker, Air Mail, 28 Mar. 2026
Having built his fame through social media and then parlayed his skills at climbing vertiginous structures, photography and drone operation into a lucrative art career — one partly built on non-fungible tokens — Wright has a narrative that’s also a quintessentially 21st-century success story.
—Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 18 Mar. 2026
Night begins with a brand-new two-door 1967 Pontiac LeMans crawling on vertiginous Franklin Road outside Evans City, Pennsylvania, before making a hairpin turn up a steep, slender dirt road that leads into the famous cemetery.
—Literary Hub, 13 Mar. 2026
Her posthumous album with Nomad War Machine is a celebration of the vertiginous possibility of life, and a capstone on a career that took none of it for granted.
—H.d. Angel, Pitchfork, 4 Mar. 2026
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Andrew Zucker, Air Mail, 28 Mar. 2026
Having built his fame through social media and then parlayed his skills at climbing vertiginous structures, photography and drone operation into a lucrative art career — one partly built on non-fungible tokens — Wright has a narrative that’s also a quintessentially 21st-century success story.
—Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 18 Mar. 2026
Night begins with a brand-new two-door 1967 Pontiac LeMans crawling on vertiginous Franklin Road outside Evans City, Pennsylvania, before making a hairpin turn up a steep, slender dirt road that leads into the famous cemetery.
—Literary Hub, 13 Mar. 2026
Her posthumous album with Nomad War Machine is a celebration of the vertiginous possibility of life, and a capstone on a career that took none of it for granted.
—H.d. Angel, Pitchfork, 4 Mar. 2026
See All Example Sentences for vertiginous
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vertiginous
Adjective
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Eurodance with the bass-heavy Swedish genre EPA-dunk and 3Cha—the giddy electronic dance music from Thaiboy’s home region of Isaan in Thailand—to form a new kind of globalist hyperpop.—
Harry Thorfinn-George,
Pitchfork,
27 Apr. 2026
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Their struggle has upturned the tabletop candle that illuminates the scene and any moment will surely extinguish it, effacing the giddy pattern formed by the writhing bodies and glowing, veiny bladder skin.—
Julian Bell,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
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By applying lower‑body compression, the garment helps counteract a common condition called orthostatic intolerance that causes astronauts to faint or feel dizzy following an extended mission in microgravity.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
9 Apr. 2026
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The caller hit their head and felt dizzy.—
Nollyanne Delacruz,
Mercury News,
7 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The magnetar was initially surrounded by a whirling disk of matter, funneling from its inner edge onto the stellar remnant.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
11 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The wooziest moments sacrifice Robyn’s easy-listening appeal for the sake of surprise.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
11 Mar. 2026
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Few rappers kicked off the 2010s with more buzz than A$AP Rocky, who along with his A$AP Mob collective swept through New York and eventually the whole country with his easy swagger, woozy beats and electric rhymes.—
Carl Lamarre,
Billboard,
29 Jan. 2026
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“Vertiginous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vertiginous. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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