vertiginous

/ver-tij-uh-nuhs/US // vərˈtɪdʒ ə nəs //UK // (vɜːˈtɪdʒɪnəs) //

眩晕的,眩晕,眩目的,眩晕的人

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : whirling; spinning; rotary: vertiginous currents of air.
- : affected with vertigo; dizzy.
- : liable or threatening to cause vertigo: a vertiginous climb.
- : apt to change quickly; unstable: a vertiginous economy.

adj.dizzying

Synonyms

GDP plunged in the most vertiginous drop ever recorded, and millions of workers lost their jobs almost instantly.
His prophecy kicked off a vertiginous frenzy of doomsaying, and he was thrown in jail by fearful Bolognese officials.
Skiing/boarding at Niseko is not about reaching vertiginous heights.
Ahead of him, as he rose to his feet, the line of guards stood out as paler darknesses against the vertiginous island face.
A vertiginous faintness brought him half tumbling and half rolling back into his chair, wheezing and moist with sweat.
It is only after long internal travail that it moves with vertiginous rapidity.
This Tarantula-dance of repetitions and vertiginous argumentation in circulo, begun in imposture and self-consummated in madness!
Music was become vertiginous; a mad vortex, wherein whirled mad atoms, madly embracing.