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/vɜːtˈɪdʒɪnəs/
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ADJECTIVE
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having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling
had a dizzy spell
a dizzy pinnacle
had a headache and felt giddy
a vertiginous climb up the face of the cliff
a giddy precipice
feeling woozy from the blow on his head
How To Use vertiginous In A Sentence
- I felt vertiginous just looking up at the ceiling.
- The moment when Jonas watches his sleepwalking self peer into the camera at his awakened self (or vice versa?) is almost vertiginous in its self-referentiality. Translated Texts
- It's a "party town": bum-skimming skirts, plunging tops and vertiginous heels are standard uniform for every female holidaymaker. Are SlutWalkers losing their way? | Victoria Coren
- Yet its vertiginous economic climb is not reflected by any deeper cultural understanding. Times, Sunday Times
- The road twists vertiginously around sharp drop-offs, and nighttime is when poisonous fer-de-lance snakes slither across the road.
- Five miles of twisting narrow lanes then a mile-long descent ending in a vertiginous 30% decline with tight blind hairpin bends. Times, Sunday Times
- And the percentage of total births that are illegitimate has held relatively steady in recent years, after a vertiginous 50-year climb.
- Perched on a rock precipice, the site is unassailable from three sides, with a vertiginous 1000 feet drop at one end.
- The surfaces of these complex, radically vertiginous paintings are built up with transparent and opaque acrylics.
- Hadid's graphics remind me of the steep perspectives and vertiginous sweep of illustrations in science fiction comics.
