Meanings
adjectiveswoony (comparative swoonier, superlative swooniest)
comparative swoonier · superlative swooniest
- Tending to swoon (in any sense).
On Thursday’s episode Addison […] turned swoony when a handsome, lecherous colleague kissed her in a stairwell.
2007 May 5, Alessandra Stanley, “The New Modern Woman, Ambitious and Feeble”, in New York Times
Origin
From swoon (verb) + -y (verbal suffix meaning “inclined to”).
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swoony. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/swoony
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “swoony,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/swoony.
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