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Synonyms for giddy

  • adjective

Most common

silly empty-headed reckless heedless ecstatic elated light-headed dizzied

Synonyms by meaning

Adjective

1. Silly — unable to concentrate or think seriously; easily excited; impulsive; also, lightheartedly silly; frivolous

silly, empty-headed, flighty, wild, reckless, heedless, thoughtless, vacillating, frivolous, fickle, changeable, unsteady, feather-headed informal, unstable, mercurial, inconsistent, volatile, inconstant, feather-brained, giddy-brained, hare-brained, cock-brained

2. Ecstatic — joyfully elated; overcome with excitement or happiness

ecstatic, elated, happy, joyous, merry, air-headed, mellow, gleeful, exultant, joyful, cheerful

3. Light-headed — feeling a sense of spinning in the head, causing a perception of unsteadiness and being about to fall down…

light-headed, woozy, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, fuzzy, rattleheaded, westy, vertiginate, shoogly UK

4. Vertiginous

vertiginous, dizzy, dizzying

Other

dizzied

Antonyms

sad, solemn, cheerless

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Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Feeling a sense of spinning in the head, causing a perception of unsteadiness and being about to fall down; dizzy.

    The man became giddy upon standing up so fast.

  2. adj. 2

    Unable to concentrate or think seriously; easily excited; impulsive; also, lightheartedly silly; frivolous.

  3. adj. 3

    Joyfully elated; overcome with excitement or happiness.

    The boy was giddy when he opened his birthday presents.

  4. adj. 4

    Causing or likely to cause dizziness or a feeling of unsteadiness.

    They climbed to a giddy height.

Related words

Word family
giddily giddiness giddy-brained giddy-go-round
Phrases
giddy limit

Example sentences

  • silly Tom gets confused and says silly things sometimes.
  • reckless We tried to restrain him from his reckless action.
  • heedless We're acting like a pack of heedless cretins.
  • ecstatic The day they ban leaf blowers, I'll be ecstatic.
  • elated He became very elated at the news.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
giddyrising
sillyrising
recklessrising
heedlessrising
ecstaticrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
wild1
5 letters
happy2, silly2, merry2, fuzzy2, dizzy2, woozy2, westy
6 letters
joyful2, joyous2, mellow2, fickle2, elated3
7 letters
flighty2, gleeful2, dizzied, shoogly
8 letters
unstable3, reckless2, volatile3, cheerful2, ecstatic3, unsteady3, dizzying3, exultant3, heedless
9 letters
frivolous3, mercurial4
10 letters
changeable3, inconstant
11 letters
thoughtless2, vacillating4, vertiginous, vertiginate
12 letters
inconsistent4, rattleheaded

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (happy2 = 2 syllables).