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vertiginous

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ver·tig·i·nous  (vr-tj-ns)
adj.
1. Turning about an axis; revolving or whirling.
2. Affected by vertigo; dizzy. See Synonyms at giddy.
3. Tending to produce vertigo: "my small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown" (Diana Cooper).
4. Inclined to change quickly; unstable.

[From Latin vertg, vertgin-, a whirling, from vertere, to turn; see version.]

ver·tigi·nous·ly adv.
ver·tigi·nous·ness n.

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
Adj.1.vertiginousvertiginous - having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling; "had a dizzy spell"; "a dizzy pinnacle"; "had a headache and felt giddy"; "a giddy precipice"; "feeling woozy from the blow on his head"; "a vertiginous climb up the face of the cliff"
ill, sick - affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function; "ill from the monotony of his suffering"
Translations
vertiginous [vɜːˈtɪdʒɪnəs] ADJvertiginoso
vertiginous [vɜːrˈtɪdʒɪnəs] (literary) adjvertigineux/euse
vertiginous
adj (liter) cliffs, descent, dropschwindelerregend; heights alsoschwindelnd (geh); sensationatemberaubend
vertiginous [vɜːˈtɪdʒɪnəs] adj (frm) (cliff, descent, view) → che dà le vertigini
vertiginous [vɜːˈtɪdʒɪnəs] adj (frm) (cliff, descent, view) → che dà le vertigini


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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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