vertiginous
/vərˈtɪdʒənəs/
adjective
- Causing or experiencing a feeling of dizziness or spinning, as if things are whirling around.
- The vertiginous ride on the merry-go-round left the children giggling and dizzy.
- The vertiginous height of the cliff made her step back from the edge.
- After spinning in circles, he felt a vertiginous sensation that lasted for minutes.
- Extremely high or steep, causing a sense of dizziness.
- The roller coaster's vertiginous first hill made some riders close their eyes.
- She lived in a vertiginous skyscraper where the clouds often passed below her window.
- The hikers paused to admire the vertiginous drop into the canyon below.
- Characterized by rapid, confusing change or instability; causing mental disorientation.
- The vertiginous pace of technological change can be hard to keep up with.
- The plot of the movie was so vertiginous that I lost track of who was who.
- After the company merger, employees faced a vertiginous series of policy shifts.
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