giddy

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

giddy [giddy giddier giddiest giddies giddied giddying] BrE [ˈɡɪdi] NAmE [ˈɡɪdi] adjective (gid·dier, gid·di·est)
1. not usually before noun feeling that everything is moving and that you are going to fall
Syn: ↑dizzy
•When I looked down from the top floor, I felt giddy.
2. not usually before noun ~ (with sth) so happy and excited that you cannot behave normally
•She was giddy with happiness.
3. usually before noun making you feel as if you were about to fall
•The kids were pushing the roundabout at a giddy speed.
• (figurative)the giddy heights of success
4. (old-fashioned) (of people)not serious
Syn: ↑silly
•Isabel's giddy young sister
Derived Words: ↑giddily ▪ ↑giddiness

Word Origin:
Old English gidig ‘insane’, literally ‘possessed by a god’, from the base of God. Current senses date from late Middle English.

Example Bank:
•He felt tired and giddy from the sleeping pill.
•I was giddy with the heat.
•My mum came over all giddy and had to sit down.
•She was giddy with anticipation about spending two months with her father.
•Steep stairs may leave you giddy and faint.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, featherbrained, light-headed, lightheaded, silly, woozy, vertiginous