Synonyms 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

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

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

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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"

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

   Antonyms:
   serious, well

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

   lacking seriousness; given to frivolity

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

   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

   Antonyms:
   well, serious

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1. giddyadjective

   Synonyms:
   vertiginous, dizzy

2. giddyadjective

   Synonyms:
   changeable, fickle, inconstant, unsteady, mutable, unstable, irresolute

3. giddyadjective

   Synonyms:
   careless, heedless, thoughtless, wild, reckless, headlong, flighty, hair-brained, giddy-brained, light-headed

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1. giddyadjective

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "giddy":

   mischievous, playful, dizzy, dazed, lightheaded

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1. Ferdinand Hodler:

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

2. Echo Delta:

   Now when I go on a trip, I look for abandoned buildings, when I see one, I kind of get giddy and want to go in.

3. Bruce Morrow:

   We were both so happy, so excited, but we tried to stay low-key, like it's no big deal, so we wouldn't look all giddy and silly, if Ed was wearing lipstick, you would have been able to see lipstick smudges on both his ears because that's how big that smile was on him. It was a look I'd never forget.

4. 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.

5. Peter Boockvar:

   Sentiment is very giddy. Valuations are inflated. But that can stay that way for some time.