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🌸 Intensely, dizzyingly ⚡ Impulsively
headily

headily

8.8
In a way that makes you feel dizzy or very excited
  • adverb
  • /ˈhɛdɪli/
translation icon : embriagadoramente
  • She spoke headily about her plans for the future, overflowing with enthusiasm.

Examples

  • The garden was headily fragrant, the swimming pool floodlit, and lamps lit the way along the stepping-stones of the path.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • The party was headily joyful, with music and laughter filling the air.

  • After that exhilarating ride, he felt headily dizzy from the thrill.

Synonyms

deliriously
vsheadily
5 6.3

With extreme joy and excitement that feels wild

leans more toward very strong pleasure plus dizziness not only joy
giddily
vsheadily
2 6.1

In a way that shows silly excitement and feeling dizzy

is stronger and more intense, causing greater excitement or dizziness
dizzyingly
vsheadily
1 6.0

In a way that makes you feel unsteady and confused from high speed, great height and sudden large change

adds an exciting absorbing quality as well as causing dizziness
woozily
vsheadily
1 7.3

In a way that feels dizzy and unsteady

conveys stronger excitement and attraction not just mild physical unsteadiness
intoxicatingly
vsheadily
1 7.6

In a way that makes you feel very excited and happy

mixes excitement with strong dizzy or overwhelming feelings
overpoweringly
vsheadily
1 7.4

In a very strong way that is hard to resist

emphasizes intense excitement combined with dizziness rather than only force
head-spinningly
vsheadily
9.3

Very fast and confusing, making you feel dizzy

stresses strong excitement with added dizziness rather than only confusion
vertiginously
vsheadily
9.8

Very steeply or in a way that makes you feel dizzy

focuses more on exciting emotional thrill rather than physical steepness
light-headedly
vsheadily
6.9

In a dizzy, unsteady way as if about to faint

is more about strong exciting or overwhelming feelings rather than faintness

Antonyms

calmly
110 1.0

In a calm, steady way without showing anger or nervousness

soberly
8 4.2

In a serious, calm way that does not show excitement

How Intoxicating

overwhelmingly
151 4.7
headily
8.8
tantalizingly
  • US
4 7.4
alluringly
1 5.9

Surface Forms

headily positive

Morphology

headily = heady (semi-transparent) = head + ily

The transformation from 'heady' to 'headily' is clear, but the meaning of 'heady' itself can be contextually nuanced.

Etymology

Headily comes from head 'the top of the body where you feel dizzy' plus -ly to show 'in this way'. Think of a strong wine or perfume that makes you feel light in the head, like a heady smell, so headily can mean 'in an intoxicating or overpowering way'.