• (British, America) IPA: /ˈdɪzi/

dizzy (comparative dizzier, superlative dizziest)

1. Having a sensation of whirling, with a tendency to fall; giddy; feeling unbalanced or lightheaded.

   I stood up too fast and felt dizzy.

   • Alas! his brain was dizzy.

2. Producing giddiness.

   We climbed to a dizzy height.

   • 1911, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Goldsmith,_Oliver Goldsmith, Oliver]”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica:

     To climb from the brink of Fleet Ditch by a dizzy ladder.

   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IX

     ...faintly from the valley far below came an unmistakable sound which brought me to my feet, trembling with excitement, to peer eagerly downward from my dizzy ledge.

3. Empty-headed, scatterbrained or frivolous; ditzy.

   My new secretary is a dizzy blonde.

   • 1671, John Milton, “Book the Second”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: Printed by J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398 ↗:

     the dizzy multitude

• French: pris#French|pris de#French|de vertige, vaseux, vasouillard
• German: schwindelig, schwindlig
• Portuguese: tonto
• Spanish: mareado, vertiginoso

• French: vertigineux, étourdissant
• German: schwindelerregend
• Portuguese: vertiginoso
• Russian: головокружи́тельный
• Spanish: mareador, vertiginoso

• French: tête en l’air, écervelé

dizzy (dizzies, present participle dizzying; past dizzied, past participle dizzied)

1. (transitive) To make dizzy, to bewilder.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:

     , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.161:

     Let me have this violence and compulsion removed, there is nothing that, in my seeming, doth more bastardise and dizzie a wel-borne and gentle nature […].

   • 1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. [...] In Three Volumes, volume (please specify ), Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], OCLC 230694662 ↗: