dizzy

Meaning

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. simple, half-witted.

Verb

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

Noun

A distributor (device in internal combustion engine).

Synonyms

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

feel giddy

totter

turn around

unfunny

unintelligent

wither

gooselike

make dizzy

unsteady on one’s feet

become weak

soft-witted

make giddy

unable to see distinctly

give the vertigo

absurd

full of hardship

airsick

apish

balmy

barmy

bewildered

blur

breakneck

confused

😕

dense

dim-witted

distract

divert

dizziness

dull

fade

feeble

feebleminded

fond

fool

frivolous

gormless

half-baked

half-witted

have a stroke

headache

headless

ignorant

ill

🤢

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈdɪzi/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: dysy

Inherited from Old English: dysiġ

Cognate with Western Frisian: dize

Cognate with Dutch: deusig

Cognate with German: 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”).