vertiginous

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US /vɜː(ɹ)ˈtɪd͡ʒɪnəs/
adj Freq #130710

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    having or causing a whirling sensation

    This view is vertiginous.

  2. 2
    adj

    Pertaining to vertigo (in all its meanings).

    GPT-4 didn’t give me an existential crisis. But it exacerbated the dizzy and vertiginous feeling I’ve been getting whenever I think about A.I. lately.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 adj · having or causing a... dizzy
Word family
Derived forms vertiginouslyvertiginousness

Etymology

From Middle French vertigineux, from Latin vertīginōsus.

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