1 feeling as if everything is spinning around you and that you are not able to balance:
Climbing so high made me feel dizzy. * I suffer from dizzy spells (= short periods when I am dizzy).
2 making you feel dizzy; making you feel that a situation is changing very fast:
the dizzy descent from the summit * the dizzy pace of life in Hong Kong
3 (informal, especially AmE) silly or stupid:
a dizzy blonde
dizzily adverb
dizziness noun [U]:
He complained of headaches and dizziness.
IDIOMS
the dizzy heights (of sth) (informal) an important or impressive position:
They reached the dizzy heights of Number 11 in the hit parade.
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Is dizzy a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, dizzy is tagged as adjective.
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