American Heritage Dictionary
(4)
Century Dictionary
(4)
GNU Webster's 1913
(1)
WordNet
(1)
Elsewhere on the web
So after a patient has been long confined to his bed, when he first attempts to walk, he finds himself vertiginous, and is obliged by practice to learn again the particular modes of the apparent motions of objects, as he walks by them 4.— Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
The effect was so vertiginous, apparently, that nobody noticed the new religion in the centre of the intellectual whirlpool.— Back to Methuselah
She thought, "To never know how to marry oneself in ideas and endeavors that bring new ideas into existence, to just claim another person's rotting flesh to not wander around lost and vertiginous--no I'm not one of the sorry herd You really won't stay?"— Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

American Heritage Dictionary (1)
Century Dictionary (1)
Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year
Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed
You can expect to see this word about once a year.
Recently looked upfail-safe · vellum · smirk · Chloroform · assessment |
Recent Favoritespygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms |
Recent Pronunciationseu oi oìa u ou e u oìa · the octopi are dry · Kansas City · spell it rite · put it in your pocket |