dizzyingly
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6.0
- adverb
- /ˈdɪziɪŋli/
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vertiginosamente
- Blackness all around and the sense of dizzyingly fast descent.
- dizzyingly fast
- dizzyingly complex
- dizzyingly tall
Examples
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The snake goes on, fast and faster, furiously, dizzyingly, until hands pull apart, and in the rising crescendo of the music, the snake falls apart altogether, and the dancers, giddy and breathless, laugh into one another's faces.
Fiction book (1999) -
The wide yellow squares of light flipped by, dizzyingly fast.
Fiction book (1990) -
Online marketing is getting dizzyingly complex very quickly.
Blog text (29) -
But when trained, their song can be dizzyingly persuasive.
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Everything melts dizzyingly in the bright sunshine.
Fiction book (2002) -
Not only was the capability developed in a dizzyingly short timescale, but it was also demonstrated.
Blog text (12) -
Marie tried to listen, but she couldn't grasp the dizzyingly enormous and abstract amounts.
Fiction book (1995) -
And I mean dizzyingly complex, replete with feints and distractions and calibrated movements of the Swiss watch type.
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Joe Wright's ANNA KARENINA is a dizzyingly stylized rendition of Leo Tolstoy's oft-adapted classic of love, infidelity, and despair.
Blog text (29) -
The roller coaster moved dizzyingly fast, leaving riders breathless and exhilarated.
Synonyms
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6.1
In a way that shows silly excitement and feeling dizzy
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3.2
In a way that makes you feel unsteady and as if the room is turning
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7.3
In a way that feels dizzy and unsteady
Very steeply or in a way that makes you feel dizzy
Very fast and confusing, making you feel dizzy
In a dizzy, unsteady way as if about to faint
In a way that makes you feel dizzy or very excited
Antonyms
How Overwhelming
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Dizzyingly comes from dizzy, which comes from an old English word dysig meaning 'giddy', plus the ending -ly that turns it into a word about how something happens. So, dizzyingly describes something that makes you feel unsteady or overwhelmed, as if your head is 'spinning'.