Antonyms for giddy
ˈgɪd igid·dy

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1. giddyadjective

   Synonyms:
   dizzy

2. giddyadjective

   dizzy, feeling dizzy or unsteady and as if about to fall down

   The man became giddy upon standing up so fast.

   Synonyms:
   dizzy

3. giddyadjective

   causing dizziness: causing dizziness or a feeling of unsteadiness

   They climbed to a giddy height.

   Synonyms:
   dizzy

4. giddyadjective

   lightheartedly silly, or joyfully elated

   The boy was giddy when he opened his birthday presents.

   Synonyms:
   dizzy

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1. giddy

   Antonyms:
   stationary, slow, ponderous, thoughtful, earnest, steady, low, unelevated, wary, circumspect

   Synonyms:
   whirling, vertiginous, thoughtless, inconstant, unsteady, lofty, beetling, dizzy, hare-brained, flighty

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1. dizzy, giddy, woozy, vertiginousadjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   serious, well

   Synonyms:
   lightheaded, woozy, silly, featherbrained, dizzy, light-headed, empty-headed, airheaded, vertiginous

2. airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, featherbrained, giddy, light-headed, lightheaded, sillyadjective

   lacking seriousness; given to frivolity

   "a dizzy blonde"; "light-headed teenagers"; "silly giggles"

   Antonyms:
   well, serious

   Synonyms:
   woozy, zany, empty-headed, silly, dizzy, wacky, ridiculous, airheaded, whacky, goofy, sappy, cockamamie, light-headed, swooning, faint, lightheaded, slaphappy, light, featherbrained, punch-drunk, vertiginous, cockamamy, pathetic

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1. giddyadjective

   Synonyms:
   fickle, mercurial, volatile, flighty, unstable, inconstant, thoughtless, light-headed, dizzy, vertiginous

How to use giddy in a sentence?

1. Dallas Seavey:

   You know I was thinking about it coming into here (Koyuk): holy cow we actually stand a good chance of winning the Iditarod, we'll see where we are when the dust settles. I'm not trying to get all giddy just yet.

2. William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew:

   He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

3. Butler:

   Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud, and vain; By this the fool commands the wise, The noble with the base complies, The sot assumes the rule of wit, And cowards make the base submit.

4. Ferdinand Hodler:

   When you look up at the sky, you have a feeling of unity, which delights you and makes you giddy.

5. Norman Korpi:

   I just did this trade show and people were literally giddy, my manufacturers and my sales reps were like, 'Why are these people so fidgety?'.

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