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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Having a reeling, lightheaded sensation; dizzy.
  2. adj. Causing or capable of causing dizziness: a giddy climb to the topmast.
  3. adj. Frivolous and lighthearted; flighty.
  4. v. To become or make giddy.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Foolishly light or frivolous; governed by wild or thoughtless impulses; manifesting exuberant spirits or levity; flighty; heedless.
  2. Characterized by or indicating giddiness or levity of feeling.
  3. Affected with vertigo, or a swimming sensation in the head, causing liability to reel or fall; dizzy; reeling: as, to be giddy from fever or drunkenness, or in looking down from a great height.
  4. Adapted to cause or to suggest giddiness; of a dizzy or dizzying nature; acting or causing to act giddily.
  5. = Syn. 1 and 2. Careless, reckless, headlong, flighty, hare-brained, light-headed.
  6. To make dizzy or unsteady.
  7. To turn quickly; reel.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. dizzy, feeling dizzy or unsteady and as if about to fall down
  2. adj. causing dizziness: causing dizziness or a feeling of unsteadiness
  3. adj. lightheartedly silly, or joyfully elated
  4. adj. archaic Frivolous, impulsive, inconsistent, changeable.
  5. v. obsolete, transitive To make dizzy or unsteady.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Having in the head a sensation of whirling or reeling about; having lost the power of preserving the balance of the body, and therefore wavering and inclined to fall; lightheaded; dizzy.
  2. adj. Promoting or inducing giddiness
  3. adj. Bewildering on account of rapid turning; running round with celerity; gyratory; whirling.
  4. adj. Characterized by inconstancy; unstable; changeable; fickle; wild; thoughtless; heedless.
  5. v. To reel; to whirl.
  6. v. obsolete To make dizzy or unsteady.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling
  2. adj. lacking seriousness; given to frivolity

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English gidi, gydi ("foolish"), from Old English gydiġ ("possessed by a spirit or demon, mad, insane"), from Proto-Germanic *gudīgaz (“ghostly, spirited”), equivalent to god +‎ -y. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English gidi, crazy, from Old English gidig. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

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  • “They're using tools, mixing concrete for the first time, and many are just plain giddy about how quickly the whole thing is coming together.”

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  • “GOP strategists are again giddy at the prospect, as one GOP pollster put it: "People who have been part of our majority coalition are looking to come back to us.”

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  • “Oh, that IS modest (becomes half-term giddy half-termébouler)”

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  • “At the recent taping, he called a giddy thirty-something women up on stage.”

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  • “Here's to happy writers in giddy garrets, as opposed to bleakness and misery!”

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  • “Now that you're all giddy from the links, why not go and Vote Mitchieville as Canada's Best Blog.”

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  • “Playing twenty dollars per round, five bucks on each of the four hands dealt out, I harbored a certain giddy anticipation of making it to the fourth hand, hitting a royal flush, and bagging $32,000.”

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  • “Even though, yeah, my computer has the surround-sound speakers, there's something about sitting in giddy anticipation of the movie itself, wondering what sort of crackerjack treats you're going to get.”

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synonyms (13)

Words with the same meaning

  1. light-headed
  2. dizzy
  1. gyratory
  2. whirling
  1. unstable
  2. changeable
  1. fickle
  2. wild
  1. thoughtless
  2. heedless
  1. reel
  2. whirl
  1. frivolous

equivalents (3)

Other words for ‘giddy’

  1. ill
  1. sick
  1. frivolous

same context (16)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. dizzy
  2. frantic
  3. delirious
  1. breathless
  2. daze
  3. mad
  1. hysterical
  2. frivolous
  3. unsteady
  1. joyous
  2. light-headed
  3. childish
  1. foolish
  2. light-hearted
  3. uncertain
  1. sensual

rhymes (10)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Biddie
  2. Biddy
  1. Liddy
  2. biddy
  1. bridie
  2. diddy
  1. kiddie
  2. kiddy
  1. sidi
  2. smiddy

reverse dictionary (80)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. giddy-pate
  2. giddy-pated
  3. dizzy
  4. vertiginous
  5. flighty
  6. jill-flirt
  7. featherbrained
  8. feather-headed
  9. light
  10. cranny
  11. harebrained
  12. harum-scarum
  13. hoity-toity
  14. flirdie
  15. cock-brained
  16. turn-sick
  1. westy
  2. wild-brain
  3. brainsick
  4. giddily
  5. giddiness
  6. giglot
  7. gill-flirt
  8. ram-stam
  9. rattlebrain
  10. rattle-brained
  11. rattlecap
  12. rattlehead
  13. rocky
  14. scatter-brain
  15. scatter-brained
  16. shatterbrain
  1. skipping
  2. skitter-brained
  3. skitter-wit
  4. swimbel
  5. lightheaded
  6. barmy-brained
  7. crank
  8. dizzily
  9. featherbrain
  10. feather-head
  11. fliskmahoy
  12. flusker
  13. giddy-bead
  14. giddy-paced
  15. giglet
  16. glaikit
  1. gowkit
  2. harebrain
  3. harebrainedly
  4. hellicat
  5. light-headed
  6. loup-the-dike
  7. rattlebrained
  8. light-minded
  9. fuzzyheaded
  10. fast and loose
  11. giddy-headed
  12. swim
  13. giddy
  14. vertiginate
  15. light-headedly
  16. rattle-headed
  1. shanny
  2. volage
  3. overlight
  4. reel
  5. sedate
  6. thoughtless
  7. to turn the head of
  8. turn
  9. whim
  10. butterfly
  11. fly-up-the-creek
  12. hempy
  13. inconsiderate
  14. rattler
  15. volatility
  16. wild

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