DIZZY
What does "DIZZY" mean?
Feeling unsteady, as if everything is spinning and you might lose your balance.
Meanings
- Having a whirling sensation in the head with a tendency to lose balance. She stood up too fast and felt suddenly dizzy.
- Causing or producing a giddy, disorienting sensation, as of great speed or height. Stock prices climbed to dizzy heights before the crash. figurative
- Foolish, scatterbrained, or frivolous. He played the dizzy sidekick for laughs. informal
Did you know?
- For most of its life 'dizzy' meant 'foolish', not 'spinning': the Old English 'dysig' described a stupid person, and only later drifted toward the whirling head we mean today.
Word origin
From Old English 'dysig' ('foolish, stupid'); the sense shifted over centuries from 'silly' to 'giddy' to the modern 'lightheaded and spinning'.
Remember it
DIZZY has a double Z that zigzags - your sense of balance does the same.
A little poem
Stand too quickly and the room
lifts a corner, slides the floor-
the world reminds you it was never still.
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Wordplay
- I spun in my office chair until I got dizzy. My boss said I was just going in circles - finally, we agreed on something.
What it teaches
When everything seems to spin, the trick is to stop fighting the motion and find one fixed point to hold.
Quick facts
What does DIZZY mean?
Feeling unsteady, as if everything is spinning and you might lose your balance.
Is DIZZY a valid word?
Yes — DIZZY is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is DIZZY?
DIZZY has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does DIZZY come from?
From Old English 'dysig' ('foolish, stupid'); the sense shifted over centuries from 'silly' to 'giddy' to the modern 'lightheaded and spinning'.
What can DIZZY teach us?
When everything seems to spin, the trick is to stop fighting the motion and find one fixed point to hold.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.