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vertiginous [vɜːˈtɪdʒɪnəs] adj
1. (Medicine / Pathology) of, relating to, or having vertigo 2. producing dizziness 3. whirling 4. changeable; unstable [from Latin vertīginōsus, from vertigo] vertiginously adv vertiginousness n ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Translations vertiginous [vɜːrˈtɪdʒɪnəs] (literary) adj → vertigineux/euse vertiginous adj (liter) cliffs, descent, drop → schwindelerregend; heights also → schwindelnd (geh); sensation → atemberaubend How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The sky of the westerly weather is full of flying clouds, of great big white clouds coming thicker and thicker till they seem to stand welded into a solid canopy, upon whose gray face the lower wrack of the gale, thin, black and angry-looking, flies past with vertiginous speed. Once again we find Nietzsche thoroughly at ease, if not cheerful, as an atheist, and speaking with vertiginous daring of making chance go on its knees to him. he thought, staring downwards at the headlong flow so smooth and clean that only the passage of a faint air- bubble, or a thin vanishing streak of foam like a white hair, disclosed its vertiginous rapidity, its terrible force. |
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