head-spinning
3
6.8
- adjective
- /ˈhɛdˌspɪnɪŋ/
- Informal
:
desconcertante
- With all the different timelines, time travel, and matters of life and death, "Looper" was enough to have anyone's head spinning.
- send my head-spinning
- left my head-spinning
- get your head-spinning
I've never seen a man beaten so badly, and I've seen a fair share of atrocious sights that would make most people's head spin.
- I've never seen a man beaten so badly, and I've seen a fair share of atrocious sights that would make most people's head spin.
- So a group can, can, can just metastasize online so fast it, it can make your head spin.
- I know this because what I do for a living is read what people say at a scale that would make this collective room head spin.
- That shit makes my head spin around because this is what happens is the average Joe, the everyday buyer and seller gets taken by that.
Examples
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A single glass of champagne at his insistence sends me to my bed with my head spinning.
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Women came into his office and laid out narratives that left his head spinning.
Fiction book (1991) -
All this has just got my head spinning.
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Is your head spinning yet?
Blog text (30) -
But it definitely left our heads spinning.
Blog text (20) -
It keeps my head spinning, even when I am giving the kids a bath.
Blog text (18) -
This is head-spinning, isn't it?
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She didn't know how much time had passed when she awoke, slowly, her head spinning, her eyes unfocused.
Fiction book (1994) -
She knows how to verbally slice, dice, and jab in a way that would leave any pundit's head spinning.
Blog text (28) -
After listening to that wild story, I felt completely head-spinning and didn't know what to think.
Synonyms
22
7.5
Very exciting and strong in a way that makes you feel dizzy
3
4.1
To make you feel your head is spinning or you might lose your balance
2
9.6
A very high or steep place that makes you feel dizzy
Very hard to understand because it is complicated
Antonyms
How Confusing
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Head-spinning comes from the image of your head and the word spin, which means 'turn'. So, when your head actually spins you feel dizzy, and head-spinning describes something that makes you feel confused or overwhelmed.