Vertiginous
adjective
Causing a feeling of being dizzy or feeling like because of being very high or steep.
From the vertiginous edge of the cliff, we looked down at the waves crashing against the rocks.
Often appears as...
- vertiginous heights
- vertiginous speed
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Formal
adjective
Involved in fast, confusing change that makes you feel disoriented.
The country underwent vertiginous social and economic change.
Often appears as...
- vertiginous changes
- vertiginous progress
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Formal
Academic
adjective
Related to or affected by vertigo, which is a sensation of spinning and loss of balance.
He suffers from a vertiginous condition, which makes it difficult for him to drive.
Often appears as...
- vertiginous symptoms
- vertiginous disease
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Formal
adjective
Causing a feeling of being dizzy or feeling like because of being very high or steep.
From the vertiginous edge of the cliff, we looked down at the waves crashing against the rocks.
Often appears as...
- vertiginous heights
- vertiginous speed
Usage tips
Formal
adjective
Involved in fast, confusing change that makes you feel disoriented.
The country underwent vertiginous social and economic change.
Often appears as...
- vertiginous changes
- vertiginous progress
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
adjective
Related to or affected by vertigo, which is a sensation of spinning and loss of balance.
He suffers from a vertiginous condition, which makes it difficult for him to drive.
Often appears as...
- vertiginous symptoms
- vertiginous disease
Usage tips
Formal
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Sensation
Used to describe real feelings of dizziness due to high or steep places.
The bridge's vertiginous height made me feel lightheaded.
Pro Tip 2/3Fear of Heights
Often relates to acrophobia, the fear of heights, in physical spaces.
She felt vertiginous looking over the balcony on the top floor.
Pro Tip 3/3Visual Impact
Describes views that may overwhelm the viewer visually and spatially.
The city's vertiginous skyscrapers are a sight to behold.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Sensation
Used to describe real feelings of dizziness due to high or steep places.
The bridge's vertiginous height made me feel lightheaded.
Pro Tip 2/3Fear of Heights
Often relates to acrophobia, the fear of heights, in physical spaces.
She felt vertiginous looking over the balcony on the top floor.
Pro Tip 3/3Visual Impact
Describes views that may overwhelm the viewer visually and spatially.
The city's vertiginous skyscrapers are a sight to behold.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Sensation
Used to describe real feelings of dizziness due to high or steep places.
The bridge's vertiginous height made me feel lightheaded.
Pro Tip 2/3Fear of Heights
Often relates to acrophobia, the fear of heights, in physical spaces.
She felt vertiginous looking over the balcony on the top floor.
Pro Tip 3/3Visual Impact
Describes views that may overwhelm the viewer visually and spatially.
The city's vertiginous skyscrapers are a sight to behold.
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Video examples
Deep Under the Earth's...
These massifs enchanted me from the first time I saw them. They are surrounded by vertical, vertiginous rock walls with silvery waterfalls that are lost in the forest. They really inspired in me a sense of wilderness, with a soul older than millions and millions of years.
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Photosynth 2: Exploring...
interesting about this one is that you can see the individual frame is the individual captures of those of those photos as we go and it creates this this sort of vertiginous time-lapse II
Video examples
Deep Under the Earth's...
These massifs enchanted me from the first time I saw them. They are surrounded by vertical, vertiginous rock walls with silvery waterfalls that are lost in the forest. They really inspired in me a sense of wilderness, with a soul older than millions and millions of years.
Video examples
Photosynth 2: Exploring...
interesting about this one is that you can see the individual frame is the individual captures of those of those photos as we go and it creates this this sort of vertiginous time-lapse II
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Quote examples
Wesley Morris
American Critic
I couldn't have known how vertiginous the entire Huxtable project was. I was, like, 10, 13, 15 years old when the show was a thing. But eventually, I could see that Cliff became a play for respectability. 'This is how you comport yourself among white people, young black child. Take a little bit of Howard with you on your way to Harvard.
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Diana Cooper
English Celebrity
It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown.
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Emil Cioran
Romanian Philosopher
Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.
Quote examples
Wesley Morris
American Critic
I couldn't have known how vertiginous the entire Huxtable project was. I was, like, 10, 13, 15 years old when the show was a thing. But eventually, I could see that Cliff became a play for respectability. 'This is how you comport yourself among white people, young black child. Take a little bit of Howard with you on your way to Harvard.
Quote examples
Diana Cooper
English Celebrity
It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown.
Quote examples
Emil Cioran
Romanian Philosopher
Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.
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