dizzily

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adverb

In a dizzy manner.

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Meanings

adverbdizzily (comparative more dizzily, superlative most dizzily)

comparative more dizzily · superlative most dizzily

  1. In a dizzy manner.

    1977, Hansard, Scotland and Wales Bill, 15 February, 1977, https://web.archive.org/web/20190212095659/https://www.hansard-corpus.org/ The Lord President can not avoid our pointing out that the Government's position has shifted dizzily from point to point during these debates.

    2 more examples

    I looked dizzily, and beheld a wide expanse of ocean, whose waters wore so inky a hue as to bring at once to my mind the Nubian geographer's account of the Mare Tenebrarum.

    1841, Edgar Allan Poe, A Descent into the Maelström

    The Australians had seen it coming—Singapore's fall and the inevitable sequel, the Japanese air attack on the Australian mainland […]. But it had happened dizzily fast.

    1942 March 2, “Feeling the Crunch”, in Time

Synonyms & antonyms

adverbin a giddy light-headed manner

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

Cite this entry
APA

dizzily. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dizzily

MLA

“dizzily.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dizzily. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dizzily,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dizzily.

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