Found 2 items, similar to vertiginous.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: vertiginous vertiginous adj : 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” [syn: dizzy, giddy, woozy]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Vertiginous Vertiginous \Ver*tig"i*nous\, a. [L. vertiginosus, fr. vertigo a whirling around, giddiness: cf. F. vertigineux. See Vertig??.] 1. Turning round; whirling; rotary; revolving; as, vertiginous motion. [1913 Webster] Some vertiginous whirl of fortune. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster] 2. Affected with vertigo; giddy; dizzy. [1913 Webster] They [the angels] grew vertiginous, and fell from the battlements of heaven. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster] -- Ver*tig"i*nous*ly, adv. -- Ver*tig"i*nous*ness, n. [1913 Webster]