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Examples of vertiginous
vertiginous
We're talking a vertiginous downward slope, a grade of 30 percent to 40 percent.
From the sacbee.com
If it's a clear afternoon, make haste to The Peak and the vertiginous Peak Tram.
From the couriermail.com.au
Certainly the first third of the book is a vertiginous introduction to disaster.
From the nytimes.com
Simon Russell Beale's portrayal takes inscrutability to vertiginous new heights.
From the guardian.co.uk
From the edge of the garden there are gulpingly vertiginous views of the Reintal.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Unlike his epic, vertiginous prose, these poems are often condensed and sparse.
From the economist.com
Grushin's subtle and vertiginous novel begins on the eve of Sukhanov's undoing.
From the nytimes.com
Britons and other Europeans need to go through a similarly vertiginous moment.
From the economist.com
First the shock of love with its vertiginous rush and the sweet fire in his spine.
From the psychcentral.com
- Dizzy: having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling; "had a dizzy spell"; "a dizzy pinnacle"; "had a headache and felt giddy"; "a giddy precipice"; "feeling woozy from the blow on his head"; "a vertiginous climb up the face of the cliff"
- Vertigo (from the Latin '''' "a whirling or spinning movement") is a type of dizziness, where there is a feeling of motion when one is stationary. The symptoms are due to a dysfunction of the vestibular system in the inner ear. ...
- Having an aspect of great depth, drawing the eye to look downwards; Inducing a feeling of giddiness, vertigo, dizziness or of whirling; Pertaining to vertigo (in all its meanings); Revolving; rotating; rotatory
- Dizzying; affected by vertigo
