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Definitions for: Vertiginous
[adj] having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling; "had a dizzy spell"; "a dizzy pinnacle"; "had a headache and felt giddy"; "a giddy precipice"; "feeling woozy from the blow on his head"; "a vertiginous climb up the face of the cliff"
Webster (1913) Definition: Ver*tig"i*nous, a. [L. vertiginosus, fr. vertigo a
whirling around, giddiness: cf. F. vertigineux. See
Vertig??.]
1. Turning round; whirling; rotary; revolving; as,
vertiginous motion.
Some vertiginous whirl of fortune. --De Quincey.
2. Affected with vertigo; giddy; dizzy.
They [the angels] grew vertiginous, and fell from
the battlements of heaven. --Jer. Taylor.
-- Ver*tig"i*nous*ly, adv. -- Ver*tig"i*nous*ness, n.
Synonyms: dizzy, giddy, ill, sick, woozy
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