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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
- Even the shoes, booties with vertiginous heels, were covered in grasping little coral-like tentacles that shook as the models -- their faces abloom with gold and colorful stripes -- stomped down the catwalk. Balmain, Zac Posen, Rick Owens & Manish Arora Out Of This World In Paris (PHOTOS, POLL)
- But this rolling of the eyes, after revolving till we become vertiginous, cannot cause the apparent circumgyration of objects, in a direction contrary to that in which we have been revolving, for the following reasons. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
- There are beautiful designer dresses dangling from rails, vertiginous heels lined up beside them - but they seem to hold little interest. Times, Sunday Times
- Is the high as vertiginous? Times, Sunday Times
- His small, vertiginous banana farm, fringed with avocado and palm trees, is at Marigot on Dominica.
- And even from the mainland there appeared to be a distinctly vertiginous southern edge to the island.
- As she lifted herself up from the computer console, walking towards her cabin in a dizzy, almost vertiginous way, she tripped on a sharp object.
- The vertiginous traumas of meat and marking often generate spectacular results, like the miasmatic language of Beatrice in The Cenci, or the prosopopeia of Swellfoot the Tyrant. _Queen Mab_ as Topological Repertoire
- Team with vertiginous gladiator sandals for an extra edge. Times, Sunday Times
- Perched on a rock precipice, the site is unassailable from three sides, with a vertiginous 1000 feet drop at one end.
