Giddy

Definition: Giddy

Giddy

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".

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

Date "giddy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonyms: Giddy

Caprice

Adjective: capricious; erratic, eccentric, fitful, hysterical; full of whims; Noun: maggoty; inconsistent, fanciful, fantastic, whimsical, crotchety, kinky, particular, humorsome, freakish, skittish, wanton, wayward; contrary; captious; arbitrary; unconformable; penny wise and pound foolish; fickle; (irresolute); frivolous, sleeveless, giddy, volatile.

Imbecility Folly

Narrow-minded; bigoted; (obstinate); giddy; (thoughtless); rash; eccentric; (crazed).

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).

Insanity

Corybantic, dithyrambic; rabid, giddy, vertiginous, wild; haggard, mazed; flighty; distracted, distraught; depressed; agitated, hyped up; bewildered; (uncertain).

Irresolution

Vacillating; Verb: unsteady; (changeable); unsteadfast, fickle, without ballast; capricious; volatile, frothy; light, lightsome, light-minded; giddy; fast and loose.

Rashness

Adjective: rash, incautious, indiscreet; imprudent, improvident, temerarious; uncalculating; heedless; careless; (neglectful); without ballast, heels over head, head over heels; giddy; (inattentive); wanton, reckless, wild, madcap; desperate, devil-may-care.

Unskillfulness

Inapt, unapt; inhabile; untractable, unteachable; giddy; (inattentive); inconsiderate; (neglectful); stupid; inactive; incompetent; unqualified, disqualified, ill-qualified; unfit; quackish; raw, green, inexperienced, rusty, out of practice.

Crosswords: Giddy

Giddy Up no no this way. (Sleepy Hollow; writing credit: Kevin Yagher)

Giddy Gadgets (1962)

The Giddy Age (1932)

Giddy Golightly (1917)

Mr. and Mrs. Piecan: the Giddy Husband (1915)

The Giddy Game Show (1985)

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

Books

• Giddy Fortune's furious fickle wheel (King Henry, V/iii); Shakespeare on the American dream (reference)

• Giddy Up (Cat on the Mat Books) (reference)

• Lunatics and lovers; a tribute to the giddy and glittering era of the screen's "screwball" and romantic comedies (reference)

• Ready, Steady, Go: The Smashing Rise and Giddy Fall of Swinging London (reference)

• The Berenstain Bears and the Giddy Grandma (Berenstain Bears Big Chapter Book) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Giddy Up (reference)

• Giddy up Let's Ride [CD-SINGLE] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

Don't play the giddy fool. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

She was getting a little giddy with so much floating in the air, and was rather glad to find herself walking again in the natural way.

I am as giddy as a drunken man.

The sea lay far below him at a giddy depth

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

For example, research shows that toluene can produce headache, euphoria, giddy feelings, and inability to coordinate movements. (references)

A balance disorder is a disturbance that causes an individual to feel unsteady, giddy, woozy, or have a sensation of movement, spinning, or floating. (references)

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

Expressions using "giddy": be giddy ♦ become giddy ♦ feel giddy ♦ giddy height ♦ giddy up! ♦ make giddy ♦ play the giddy goat ♦ turn giddy. Additional references.

Beginning with "giddy": Giddy-head, Giddy-headed, Giddy-paced, giddy-up.

Containing "giddy": a giddy-go-round.

Albanian

mendjelehtë (airily, facile, featherbrain, featherbrained, featherheaded, frivolous, harebrained, hoity toity, light minded, light-headed, lightsome, unreflecting, unthinking, vain), marramendës (dizzy, heady, tearing, vertiginous). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مسبب للدوار (dizzy), ‏مصاب بالدوار (dazed, vertiginous), ‏طائش (bad, careless, flighty, foolhardy, frivolous, harebrained, hasty, heedless, impetuous, imprudent, inadvertent, inconsiderate, indiscreet, injudicious, libertine, light, light minded, light-headed, lunatic, mad, madcap, muddle-headed, popinjay, random, rash, rattle-brained, reckless, scatter-brain, scatter-brained, scatty, stray, stunned, thoughtless, unadvised, unwise), ‏أصاب بدوار (swim, whirl), ‏دائخ (dizzy, light-headed, vertiginous). (various references)

Bulgarian 

шеметен (dizzy, heady, vertiginous), на който му се вие свят, замаян (dizzy, groggy, light, light-headed, poppied, punch-drunk, rocky, silly, woozy), лекомислен (airy, airy fairy, dizzy, empty headed, fast, featherbrained, flip, flippant, foolish, frivolous, harebrained, harum scarum, idle, inconstant, light, light minded, light-headed, scatter-brained, superficial, trivial, unreflecting, unthinking). (various references)

Chinese 

轻浮, 暈眩 (daze), 暈 (confused, dizzy, faint, ring around moon or sun). (various references)

Czech

závratný (exorbitant, incalculable, staggering, vertiginous), trpící závratí (light-headed). (various references)

Farsi 

متزلزل (Insecure, Ramshackle, Seismic, Shaky, Unstable), مبتلابه دوارسر, گیج (Astound, Astray, Dizzy, Harebrained, Hazy, Stupid, Wacky), دوار (Rotatory), بی فکر (Inconsiderate, Insensate, Thoughtless). (various references)

Finnish

huimaava (dizzy). (various references)

French

vertigineux, pris de vertige, d'un étourdissement, avoir le vertige, être pris de vertige, étourdi, écervelé. (various references)

German

schwindlig (dizzily, dizzy), schwindelnd (gypping, swindling, vertiginous, vertiginously). (various references)

Greek 

ζαλισμένοσ (dazed, dizzy, muzzy, tipsy, vertiginous, woozy). (various references)

Hebrew 

מסוחרר, מסחרר (dizzy, dizzying, heady, vertiginous). (various references)

Hungarian

szeleburdi (featherbrain, flibbertigibbet, flighty, harum-scarum, rattlebrained, thoughtless, to lack ballast). (various references)

Indonesian

pusing (dizzy, groggy, headache, light-headed). (various references)

Italian

stordito (dazed, heedless, scatterbrained, stunned), incostante (capricious, changeable, drifter, erratic, fickle, fitful, inconstant, unprincipled, variable), che ha le vertigini (dizzy). (various references)

Manx

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

Norwegian

svimmel (dizzy), ør. (various references)

Pig Latin

iddygay.(various references)

Portuguese

vertiginoso (dizzy, spellbound, vertiginous, vortical, vorticose), tonto (crazy, dizzy, dotard, dotty, gaby, light-headed, moony, spellbound, tipsy), leviano (bohemian, frivolous, harum-scarum, impulsive, light, light-headed, skittish), irrefletido (flighty, hurry, ill-considered, impulsive, inconsiderate, light-minded, reckless, thoughtless, unadvised, unreflecting, unthinking, unwary), inconstante (astatic, capricious, changeable, changeful, desultory, fanciful, fickle, flighty, impermanent, inconstant, light-minded, mutable, shifting, skittish, uncertain, unequable, unequal, unreliable, unstable, unsure, variable, versatile), frívolo (baubling, conceited, cork, corky, flimsy, footling, frivolous, futile, impulsive, light, light-headed, lightsome, nugatory, rattle-brained, shallow, trifling, vain). (various references)

Romanian

zvãpãiat (fidget, flighty, scatterbrained), zãpãcit (confounded, confused, dawdler, dim, distracted, dizzy, flighty, 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), nestatornic (changeable, fickle, flyaway, lubricous, mobile, mutable, ticklish, unfaithful, unreliable, unstable, variably, versatile, volatile, wayward), nãuc (bewildered, blockhead, crazy, dumbfounded, dunderhead, flurried, foolish, silly), haihui (carelessly, harum scarum), frivol (Corky, fast, feather-brained, flimsy, flippant, frail, frivolous, shallow, unbecoming), capiu (cracked, dizzy, Dotty), bezmetic (Batty, giddy-head), ameţitor (astounding, deafening, dizzily, dizzy, intoxicating, potent, sensuous, staggering, stunning, vertiginous), ameţit (bewildered, confounded, dizzy, flustered, groggy, inebriate, intoxicated, moony, muzzy, queer, screwed, silly, squiffy, stupid, tipsy, wild), aiurit (blunder-head, distracted, distraught, driveller, drivelling, flighty, foolish, hare-brained, irresponsible, light-headed, muddle-head, nut, oddball, scatterbrain, scatterbrains, silly, thoughtless, twaddling, whiffler, wool gathering, wrongheaded), împrãştiat (absent minded, besprent, disorderly, dissipated, littery, scatterbrain, scatterbrains, scattered, sparse, straggling, woolly-headed). (various references)

Russian 

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

Scottish

gòdach, aotrom (light). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vrtoglav (dizzying, vertiginous). (various references)

Spanish

rojo (ablush, blushing, fiery, ginger, red, ruddy), mareado (airsick, dizzy, groggy, light-headed, queasy, seasick), frívolo (airy, flighty, fribble, frivolous, skittish, trifling, trivial, trumpery). (various references)

Swedish

yr i huvudet (dizzy), yr (delirous, dizzy, light, light-headed, vertiginous), vimmelkantig (light, light-headed), lättsinnig (fickle, frivolous, irresponsible, light, light minded, light-headed, lightsome, naughty, sporty, thoghtless, trifling, wanton). (various references)

Thai

น่าวิงเวียน. (various references)

Turkish

zevzek (spoony), uçarı (abandoned, debauchee, dissolute, fast, flighty, flippant, frivolous, rake, rip), terelelli, sersemlemiş (bemused, bewildered, dizzy, fuddled, light in the head, light-headed, punch-drunk, slaphappy), sersem (addle-brained, addle-headed, addle-pated, clod, dizzy, dope, dozy, dull, dullard, foggy, foolish, gunsel, happy, light-headed, muddleheaded, muzzy, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, oaf, oafish, opaque, scatterbrain, scatterbrained, scatty, sheepish, silly, slob, stupid, woozy), hoppa (flighty, flippant, flyaway, fop, frivolous, gay, hoity toity, perky, skittish, trifling), başı dönen (dizzy, vertiginous), baş döndürücü (dizzy, vertiginous). (various references)

Ukrainian

що вертиться, запоморочливий (killing), легковажний (airy, careless, daft, featherbrained, flighty, frivolous, gossipy, harum scarum, hoity toity, light-headed, lightsome, puerile, volatile). (various references)

Vietnamese 

phù phiếm (frivolous, frothy), lảo đảo l� m chóng mặt, l� m choáng váng nhẹ dạ, choáng váng (dizzily, dizzy), chóng mặt (dizzily). (various references)

Welsh

gwacsaw (frivolous, trivial), syfrdan (dazed, stunned), penysgafn (dizzy, light-headed), penchwiban (flighty). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "giddy": giddyap, giddying, giddyup. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Giddy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gaddi, Gadya, Gawdy, Gdy, Gedde, Gedi, Gid, Gidada, giddie, gidi, gidry, gidy, giedd, Giudi, Goddb, goddie, goddy, griddy, gridy, Gtdi, Iddy, liddy, Niddry, niddy, Riddy, vidy. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: didy.

-2 letters: did, dig, gid, yid.

-3 letters: id.

+2 letters: eddying, giddily, giddyap, giddyup.

+3 letters: buddying, caddying, giddying, muddying, waddying.

+4 letters: kiddingly.

+5 letters: amygdaloid, dandifying, daylighted, deridingly, designedly, drudgingly, middlingly, ploddingly.