From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Vertiginous \Ver*tig"i*nous\, adjective [L. vertiginosus, fr. vertigo a whirling around, giddiness: cf. F. vertigineux. See {Vertig??}.]
1. Turning round; whirling; rotary; revolving; as, vertiginous motion.
Some vertiginous whirl of fortune. --De Quincey.
2. Affected with vertigo; giddy; dizzy.
They [the angels] grew vertiginous, and fell from the battlements of heaven. --Jer. Taylor. -- {Ver*tig"i*nous*ly}, adverb -- {Ver*tig"i*nous*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: 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}]
Define.com is a registered nonprofit corporation dedicated solely to the global public interest and the advancement of humanity. It belongs to all of us who have a desire to promote electronic democracy, science, creativity, imagination, reason, critical thinking, peace, race and gender equality, civil rights, equal access to education, personal liberty, free speech, animal rights, compassionate and nonviolent parenting, social and economic justice, global monetary reform, Secular Humanism, cognitive liberty and a permanent cessation of The War on Drugs.
Let's see what we can do if we put our heads together.
0