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. (UK, Yorkshire, dialectal) 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

Translations

vertigineux

mareado

💫

duizelig

💫

schwindelig

💫

tonto

💫

vertiginoso

vertiginoso

schwindelerregend

schwindlig

vertiginoso

💫

vertige

duizelingwekkend

ζαλισμένος

draaierig

💫

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”).