Associations to the word «Vertiginous»

Wiktionary

VERTIGINOUS, adjective. Having an aspect of great depth, drawing the eye to look downwards.
VERTIGINOUS, adjective. Inducing a feeling of giddiness, vertigo, dizziness or of whirling.
VERTIGINOUS, adjective. Pertaining to vertigo (in all its meanings).
VERTIGINOUS, adjective. Revolving; rotating; rotatory.

Dictionary definition

VERTIGINOUS, adjective. 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".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope