Dizzy

Definition: Dizzy

Dizzy

Adjective

1. Having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling; "had a dizzy spell"; "a dizzy pinnacle"; "had a headache and felt giddy"; "a giddy precipice"; "feeling woozy from the blow on his head"; "a vertiginous climb up the face of the cliff".

2. Lacking seriousness; given to frivolity; "a dizzy blonde"; "light-headed teenagers"; "silly giggles".

Verb

1. Make dizzy or giddy; "a dizzying pace".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "dizzy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Dizzy

Height

Mount, mountain; hill alto, butte, monticle, fell, knap; cape; headland, foreland; promontory; ridge, hog's back, dune; rising ground, vantage ground; down; moor, moorland; Alp; uplands, highlands; heights; (summit); knob, loma, pena, picacho, tump; knoll, hummock, hillock, barrow, mound, mole; steeps, bluff, cliff, craig, tor, peak, pike, clough; escarpment, edge, ledge, brae; dizzy height.

Inattention

Adjective: inattentive; unobservant, unmindful, heedless, unthinking, unheeding, undiscerning; inadvertent; mindless, regardless, respectless, listless; (indifferent); blind, deaf; bird-witted; hand over head; cursory, percursory; giddy-brained, scatter-brained, hare-brained; unreflective, unreflecting, ecervele; offhand; dizzy, muzzy, brainsick; giddy, giddy as a goose; wild, harum-scarum, rantipole, highflying; heedless, careless; (neglectful).

Rotation

Centrifugal force; surge; vertigo, dizzy round; coriolus force.

Crosswords: Dizzy

I'm going to hit you so hard it will make your ancestors dizzy. (Mulan; writing credit: Robert D. San Souci; Rita Hsiao)

Circular logic will only make you dizzy, Doctor (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco)

Dizzy Harrison, please pick your balls up and scrotum, that's balls and scrotum at counter 5. (The New Guy; writing credit: David Kendall)

Take a look at the dizzy old gal with the goat (My Man Godfrey; writing credit: Eric Hatch; Morrie Ryskind)

And I'm Dizzy Dean (Cheers; writing credit: Isaac Cronin; Wayne Wang)

Dizzy izzy boy we getting bizzy (Bow Wow [That's My Name]; performing artist: Lil Bow Wow)

Got dizzy dancing tango (Objection (Tango); performing artist: Shakira)

Dizzy Dishes (1955)

High and Dizzy (1950)

Their Dizzy Days (1944)

Dizzy Detectives (1943)

The Dizzy Acrobat (1943)

Dizzy (performing artist: Tommy Roe)

Dizzy Fingers (performing artist: Jimmy Sturr)

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Books

• Dizzy & Jimmy: My Life With James Dean: A Love Story (reference)

• Dizzy and the Gas House Gang: The 1934 St. Louis Cardinals and Depression-Era Baseball (reference)

• Dizzy Lizard (reference)

• Groovin' High: The Life of Dizzy Gillespie (reference)

• Lizzy's Dizzy Day (Hello Reader! Math. Level 2) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Three Stooges - Dizzy Doctors (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• An Electrifying Evening with Dizzy Gillespie [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Fantastic Dizzy (reference)

• Spin Dizzy Worlds (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Ragged heights and dizzy depths of mountainside around convent at Monserrat, Spain. Credit: Library of Congress.

Portrait of Dizzy Gillespie. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

He flapped his arms and puffed, he whirled until he was dizzy.

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Health

A few people get dizzy or feel confused when they take cancer pain medicines. (references)

A person with hypoglycemia may feel weak, drowsy, confused, hungry, and dizzy. (references)

Low blood pressure or hypotension can make you feel weak, dizzy, or sick to your stomach. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "dizzy": a dizzy height ♦ be dizzy ♦ dizzy Gillespie ♦ dizzy height ♦ dizzy round ♦ dizzy spell ♦ feel dizzy ♦ fell dizzy ♦ get dizzy ♦ i feel dizzy ♦ it makes me dizzy ♦ make dizzy. Additional references.

Beginning with "dizzy": dizzy-making.

Ending with "dizzy": euro-dizzy.

Albanian

trallis, marramendës (giddy, heady, tearing, vertiginous), idiot (ass, cretin, fool, idiot, idiotic, natural), i trullosur (besotted, light-headed, punchy, slaphappy, sodden, sottish, stupid), i trallisur (distraught), i shushatur (distracted, perplexed, thunderstruck), i pamend (brainless, dumb, foolish, inane, injudicious, mad, mindless, pinheaded, rattle-brained, rattle-headed), i marr mendtë, i hutuar (abashed, absent, absentminded, bewildered, confused, disconcerted, distracted, foggy, inadvertent, muddle-headed, perplexed, puzzle-headed, puzzle-pated, vague). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مسبب للدوار (giddy), ‏مصاب بدوار (faint), ‏مشوش الذهن (muddle-headed, muzzy, woozy), ‏أصاب بالدوار (daze), ‏شوش (bedevil, befuddle, blanket, confuse, demoralize, derange, disarrange, dislocate, disorganize, disrupt, disturb, embroil, fog, fuddle, garble, gum up, hamper, jam, jumble, mire, mix up, muddle, muddy, obfuscate, obscure, outface, parasite, perplex, perturb, rattle, ravel, scramble, smudge, unhinge, unsettle), ‏دواري, ‏دائخ (giddy, light-headed, vertiginous). (various references)

Bulgarian 

удивителен (amazing, astonishing, astounding, exclamatory, extraordinary, fantastic, fantastical, marvellous, marvelous, prodigious, remarkable, striking, stupendous, surprising, wonderful), шеметен (giddy, heady, vertiginous), краен (completive, distal, end, endmost, eventual, extreme, final, high, intense, intolerant, latter, marginal, out-, outside, profuse, rabid, red-hot, sublime, supreme, terminal, terminative, terrible, ultimate, unmerciful, utmost, utter, uttermost, veriest, wild-eyed), зашеметен (besotted, muzzy, silly, vertiginous), замаян (giddy, groggy, light, light-headed, poppied, punch-drunk, rocky, silly, woozy), лекомислен (airy, airy fairy, empty headed, fast, featherbrained, flip, flippant, foolish, frivolous, giddy, harebrained, harum scarum, idle, inconstant, light, light minded, light-headed, scatter-brained, superficial, trivial, unreflecting, unthinking). (various references)

Chinese 

� �暈 , 眩 (ape, dazzled), 眴 (dazzled, monkey), 暈 (confused, faint, giddy, ring around moon or sun), 头昏眼花. (various references)

Dutch

duizelig. (various references)

Esperanto

kapturna. (various references)

Faeroese

øra (feel dizzy). (various references)

Farsi 

گیج شدن , گیج (Astound, Astray, Giddy, Harebrained, Hazy, Stupid, Wacky), دچاردوران سر. (various references)

Finnish

päätä pyörryttävä, huumaantunut (dazed), huimaava (giddy). (various references)

French

d'étourdissement, s'étourdir, pris de vertige, avoir l'étourdissement. (various references)

German

schwindelig (dizzily, giddy), schwindelerregend (astronomic, astronomical, giddily, giddy, vertiginous), schwindlige, duselig (befuddled, drowsy, fuddled, giddy, stupid). (various references)

Greek 

ιλιγγιώδησ (breakneck, staggering, vertiginous), ζαλισμένοσ (dazed, giddy, muzzy, tipsy, vertiginous, woozy), ζαλισμένος (dazed, groggy, perplexed). (various references)

Hebrew 

מסחרר (dizzying, giddy, heady, vertiginous), סחרחר (lightheaded, roundabout). (various references)

Hungarian

szédítő (dizzying, giddy, vertiginous), szédülõ (giddy), szédülő (giddy, vertiginous), kábult (comatose, dazed, dopey, dopy, numb, numbed, slap happy, stunned, stupefied, stupid), kába (dopy, stunner). (various references)

Indonesian

pusing (giddy, groggy, headache, light-headed), pening, mumet (confused, headache), lengar (drowsy), keblinger (come to think the wrong way), gerogi (dazed). (various references)

Italian

vertiginoso (breakneck, breathless, exorbitant, gypping), che ha le vertigini (giddy). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

目まぐるしい (bewildering, bustling, hectic), ふて腐れる (accidentally, aimlessly, by chance, casually, limp, pooh!, reel, soft, stagger, suddenly, to become irresponsible, to become sulky, totter, unexpectantly, unsteady on one's feet). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふらふら (reel, stagger, totter, unsteady on one's feet), めまぐるしい (bewildering, bustling, hectic). (various references)

Korean 

어지러운. (various references)

Manx

thollaneagh (giddy, heady, sporadic, vertiginous), jannoo thollaneys er, cur thollaneys er (giddy). (various references)

Norwegian

svimmel (giddy). (various references)

Pig Latin

izzyday.(various references)

Portuguese

desorientar (addle, baffle, bewilder, disorient, disorientate, disturb, flap, flummox, fluster, gravel, maze, muddy, nonplus, perplex, perturb, puzzle, stun), vertiginoso (giddy, spellbound, vertiginous, vortical, vorticose), tonto (crazy, dotard, dotty, gaby, giddy, light-headed, moony, spellbound, tipsy), quecausavertigem, entontecer, confuso (abrupt, abstruse, blear, cloudy, confused, disorderly, disturbed, hugger-mugger, indistinct, intricate, jumbled up, labyrinthine, lacklustre, mazy, medley, messy, mixed, muddle-headed, muddy, obscure, pell-mell, perplexed, promiscuous, rigmarole, rough and tumble, tangly, topsy-turvy), confundir (addle, astonish, astound, baffle, befog, befuddle, bewilder, confound, confuse, confusing, confute, daze, dazzle, disarray, disconcert, distract, dumbfound, embarrass, embrangle, embroil, flabbergast, floor, flummox, flurry, fluster, fog, gravel, interfuse, intermingle, jumble, maze, mistake, mix up, moider, muddle, muddy, mull, nonplus, obfuscate, obscure, overwhelm, perplex, put out, puzzle, rattle, ravel, stagger), atordoar (amaze, appal, daze, deafen, din, dismay, hag, lay out, mope, puzzle, stagger, stun, stupefy), atordoado. (various references)

Romanian

zãpãcit (confounded, confused, dawdler, dim, distracted, flighty, giddy, hare-brained, headless, light-headed, madcap, muddle-headed, mused, muzzy, off one's dot, perplexedly, rash, reckless, scatterbrain, scatterbrained, scatterbrains, silly, thoughtless, topsy turvy, woolly-headed, wronghead, wrongheaded), zãpãci (addle, bedazzle, bewilder, confound, confuse, daze, disconcert, embrangle, entangle, flurry, gravel, jumble, knot, maze, muddle, muss, nonplus, pie, pose, shuffle), vertiginos (giddying, splitting, vertiginous), mahmur (maudlin, seedy, sleepy), capiu (cracked, Dotty, giddy), buimac (amazed, astounded, dismayed, dumb, dumbfounded, flabbergasted, flummoxed, horrified), ameţitor (astounding, deafening, dizzily, giddy, intoxicating, potent, sensuous, staggering, stunning, vertiginous), ameţit (bewildered, confounded, flustered, giddy, groggy, inebriate, intoxicated, moony, muzzy, queer, screwed, silly, squiffy, stupid, tipsy, wild), ameţi (amaze, anaesthetise, anaesthetize, anesthetise, anesthetize, bewilder, fluster, fuddle, get dizzy, intoxicate, stagger, stun, stupefy). (various references)

Russian 

головокружительный (breakneck, giddy, splitting, vertiginous). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ošamućen (barmy, besotted, dazed, woozy), koji ima vrtoglavicu. (various references)

Spanish

mareado (airsick, giddy, groggy, light-headed, queasy, seasick), vertiginoso (breakneck, vertiginous). (various references)

Swedish

yr i huvudet (giddy), yr (delirous, giddy, light, light-headed, vertiginous), virrig (confused, desultory, featherbrained, featherheaded, featherpated, helter-skelter, indiscriminate, jumbly, muddled, muddle-headed, muddy, muzzy, puzzle-headed, puzzle-pated, rambling, scatter-brained, scatty, screwed up), svindlande (vertiginous), snurrig (confused, pixilated), göra yr i huvudet, förvirrad (baffled, bemused, besotted, confused, dazed, disconcerted, distracted, mixed up, muddle-headed, perplexed, perturbed, upset, woolly minded, woozy), förvirra (addle, baffle, bamboozle, befog, bemuse, confound, confuse, daze, disconcert, disorient, disorientate, distract, embarrass, flummox, flurry, fluster, fuddle, gravel, Kittle, perplex, unsettle, upset). (various references)

Thai

เวียนศีรษะ (dizziness, swim), โง่ (brainless, dipstick, dull, dumb, foolish, lumpish, muddle-headed, nerdy, oafish, silly, simple, simple-minded, stockish, thick, thickheaded, thick-witted). (various references)

Turkish

sersemletmek (bemuse, bewilder, daze, dull, fuddle, hocus, make dizzy, make giddy, send smb. reeling, stun, stupefy), sersemlemiş (bemused, bewildered, fuddled, giddy, light in the head, light-headed, punch-drunk, slaphappy), sersem (addle-brained, addle-headed, addle-pated, clod, dope, dozy, dull, dullard, foggy, foolish, giddy, gunsel, happy, light-headed, muddleheaded, muzzy, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, oaf, oafish, opaque, scatterbrain, scatterbrained, scatty, sheepish, silly, slob, stupid, woozy), kuş beyinli (addle-brain, addle-pate, bird brained, bird witted, birdbrain, empty headed, feather brain, feather-brained, harebrained, nitwit, pinhead, shallow-brained), fırıl fırıl dönen, başını döndürmek (inebriate, transport, turn smb.'s head), başı dönen (giddy, vertiginous), baş döndürücü (giddy, vertiginous), şaşkın (addle-brained, addled, addle-headed, addle-pated, all abroad, at an end, bemused, bepuzzle, bewildered, confused, consternated, dumbfounded, gaping, happy, open-eyed, pixilated, puzzled, puzzle-headed, sheepish, slaphappy, taken aback, thunderstruck, twisted, wide-eyed, wondering). (various references)

Ukrainian

спантеличений (baffled, bemused, blank, distracted, perplexed, raddled), викликати запаморочення, запаморочливий (slapping, vertiginous), приголомшувати (appal, appall, astound, bemuse, daunt, daze, doze, dumbfound, jar, overwhelm, stun), паморочити. (various references)

Vietnamese 

l� m choáng váng (stunning), hoa mắt (dizzily), choáng váng (dizzily, giddy), chóng mặt; l� m hoa mắt. (various references)

Welsh

penysgafn (giddy, light-headed). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "dizzy": dizzying, dizzyingly. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Dizzy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bizzie, bizzy, dazy, dazz, disny, dissey, dissy, D'issy, diz, dizey, dizi, dizy, Dizzie, dizzly, dizzo, dizzyi, djize, duzi, izy, Izzi, izzy, Izzys, Izzz, Odazzi, Pizzy, wizzy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: yid.

-3 letters: id.

+2 letters: dizzily, drizzly.

+3 letters: dizzying.

+4 letters: blizzardy.

+5 letters: blizzardly, dazzlingly, dizzyingly.