dizzy

(Engels)

Adj

1. Experiencing a sensation of whirling and of being giddy, unbalanced, or lightheaded.
2. Producing giddiness.
3. Empty-headed, scatterbrained or frivolous; ditzy.
4. (UK, Yorkshire, dialectal) simple, half-witted.

Verb

To make (someone or something) dizzy; to bewilder.

Noun

A distributor (device in internal combustion engine).

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/ˈdɪzi/

Etymologie (Engels)

Overgenomen van Middelengels: dysy

Overgenomen van Oudengels: dysiġ

Verwant aan Fries: dize

Verwant aan Nederlands: deusig

Verwant aan Duits: dösig

In summary

From Middle English dysy, desy, dusi, from Old English dysiġ (“stupid, foolish”), from Proto-West Germanic *dusīg (“stunned; dazed”), likely from the root of Proto-Germanic *dwēsaz (“foolish, stupid”).
Akin to West Frisian dize (“fog”), Dutch deusig, duizig (“dizzy”), duizelig (“dizzy”), German dösig (“sleepy; stupid”).

Concepten

duizelig

💫

draaierig

💫

duizelingwekkend

melig

Synoniemen

giddy

vertiginous

light-headed

faint

lightheaded

woozy

drunk

dazed

be dizzy

stupid

empty-headed

staggering

intoxicated

foolish

airheaded

feel faint

silly

featherbrained

hectic

dopey

bewilder

dumb

bewildering

bustling

disoriented

vertigo

dopy

unsteady

anserine

inane

low

ludicrous

lunkhead

muzzy

queasy

rattlebrained

reel

reeling

sappy

seasick

sick

🤢

slow-witted

spin

splitting

stagger

stuffy

swim

🏊

swoon

think

🤔

tipsy

Vertalingen

schwindelig

💫

vertigineux

mareado

💫

tonto

💫

vertiginoso

vertiginoso

💫

vertiginoso

schwindelerregend

schwindlig

vertige

ζαλισμένος

zawrotny

avoir le vertige

tourni

étourdi