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vertiginous

adjective as in dizzying

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To the south and west and high above the town, there is Dún Aonghasa, a prehistoric three-sided stone enclosure whose fourth wall is the vertiginous cliffside, here towering 300 feet above the Atlantic.

At the start of 2021, no one would have suspected GameStop, then seen as a shopping mall relic, was about to embark on a vertiginous rally that would reconfigure Wall Street’s power dynamics.

From Quartz

GDP plunged in the most vertiginous drop ever recorded, and millions of workers lost their jobs almost instantly.

From Fortune

His prophecy kicked off a vertiginous frenzy of doomsaying, and he was thrown in jail by fearful Bolognese officials.

Skiing/boarding at Niseko is not about reaching vertiginous heights.

Ahead of him, as he rose to his feet, the line of guards stood out as paler darknesses against the vertiginous island face.

A vertiginous faintness brought him half tumbling and half rolling back into his chair, wheezing and moist with sweat.

It is only after long internal travail that it moves with vertiginous rapidity.

This Tarantula-dance of repetitions and vertiginous argumentation in circulo, begun in imposture and self-consummated in madness!

Music was become vertiginous; a mad vortex, wherein whirled mad atoms, madly embracing.

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On this page you'll find 17 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to vertiginous, such as: dizzy, giddy, revolving, rotating, spinning, and turning.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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