Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Disordered in the head; giddy or dizzy; hence, flighty; delirious.
- Thoughtless; volatile; frivolous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Disordered in the head; dizzy; feeling faint; delirious.
- adjective Thoughtless; heedless; volatile; unsteady; fickle; loose; lacking seriousness; given to frivolity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Alternative spelling of
lightheaded .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective weak and likely to lose consciousness
- adjective lacking seriousness; given to frivolity
- adjective weak and likely to lose consciousness
- adjective lacking seriousness; given to frivolity
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Examples
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He felt suddenly light-headed as he got to his feet, but he lurched forward.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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He felt suddenly light-headed as he got to his feet, but he lurched forward.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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He felt suddenly light-headed as he got to his feet, but he lurched forward.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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He felt suddenly light-headed as he got to his feet, but he lurched forward.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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He felt suddenly light-headed as he got to his feet, but he lurched forward.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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He felt suddenly light-headed as he got to his feet, but he lurched forward.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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Though he felt light-headed from the morning and afternoon group-meditation sessions and the trancing suck of the desert sun, he pushed himself up and tottered back to the yurt on legs that might as well have been deboned for all the stability they offered him, this perfect gift of the dragonfly inside him and no way to get it out.
The Silence 2010
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Because I think he is too light-headed, and badly in need of a little cheap reading.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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At this point I hit my limit on black tea and started to feel the effects of too much tannin, which leaves me light-headed.
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He felt suddenly light-headed as he got to his feet, but he lurched forward.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
bilby commented on the word light-headed
"Naples! I try to make myself look respectable, I have a good shave in hot water, and wash my hair; the removal of all that dirt leaves me light-headed and I have to sit down. God knows what will happen when I have a bath, it could mean a wheelchair."
- Spike Milligan, 'Mussolini: My Part In His Downfall'.
April 25, 2009