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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Turning about an axis; revolving or whirling.
  2. adj. Affected by vertigo; dizzy. See Synonyms at giddy.
  3. adj. Tending to produce vertigo: "my small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown” ( Diana Cooper).
  4. adj. Inclined to change quickly; unstable.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Turning round; whirling; rotary: as, a vertiginous motion.
  2. Affected with vertigo; giddy; dizzy.
  3. Apt to turn or change; unstable.
  4. Apt to make one giddy; inducing giddiness: as, a vertiginous height.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Having an aspect of great depth, drawing the eye to look downwards.
  2. adj. Inducing a feeling of giddiness, vertigo, dizziness or of whirling.
  3. adj. Pertaining to vertigo (in all its meanings).
  4. adj. Revolving; rotating; rotatory.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Turning round; whirling; rotary; revolving.
  2. adj. Affected with vertigo; giddy; dizzy.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling

Etymologies

  1. From Latin vertīgō, vertīgin-, a whirling, from vertere, to turn; see version. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • hober Used entirely too often in Perdido Street Station by China Miéville. Seriously, not a word you expect to be someone's crutch. Oct 22, 2008

  • gangerh Take a 'Vertigone' tablet. Feb 13, 2008

  • quotato Looking at that word vertiginous is making me dizzy. Feb 13, 2008

  • jeffazi dizzying; affected by vertigo Oct 31, 2007

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