giddy
Spinning with joy
Giddy describes a lightheaded, dizzy sensation—the feeling when you spin too fast or stand up too quickly.
The word extends to emotional states of excited elation: giddy with anticipation, giddy as a schoolgirl.
Something that makes you giddy induces this pleasurable disorientation: the giddy heights of success.
Giddy behavior is silly and excitable, lacking seriousness.
Faint and unsteady feeling
- vertigoSensation of spinning
- spinningRevolving around an axis
- disorientedLacking sense of direction
- unsteadyLacking balance or stability
woozy · faint · swooning · reeling · swaying · staggering · wobbly · off-balance
Intensely, buoyantly pleased
- ecstaticOverwhelmed with joy
- overjoyedExtremely pleased, intensely glad
- exhilaratedIntensely happy and energized
- thrilledOverjoyed beyond measure
delighted · rapturous · gleeful · joyous · blissful · punch-drunk · high-spirited · intoxicated
Erratic and unreliable
- scatterbrainedLacking mental focus
- sillyFrivolous or absurd
- ditzySilly and scattered
- airheadedFrivolously lacking sense
goofy · giggly · whimsical · fanciful · impulsive · harum-scarum · flippant · featherbrained
Cheerful and without worry
- buoyantAble to float
- breezyMildly windy, or nonchalant
- jauntyLively and self-assured
- blitheCheerfully indifferent
insouciant · untroubled · effervescent · sprightly · cheerful · merry · playful · sunny
lightheaded
Faint and unsteady feeling
- vertigoSensation of spinning
- spinningRevolving around an axis
- disorientedLacking sense of direction
unsteady · woozy · faint · swooning · reeling · swaying · staggering · wobbly · off-balance · dazed
elated
Intensely, buoyantly pleased
- ecstaticOverwhelmed with joy
- overjoyedExtremely pleased, intensely glad
- exhilaratedIntensely happy and energized
thrilled · delighted · rapturous · gleeful · joyous · blissful · punch-drunk · high-spirited · intoxicated · heady
flighty
Erratic and unreliable
- scatterbrainedLacking mental focus
- sillyFrivolous or absurd
- ditzySilly and scattered
airheaded · goofy · giggly · whimsical · fanciful · impulsive · harum-scarum · flippant · featherbrained · empty-headed
lighthearted
Cheerful and without worry
blithe · insouciant · untroubled · effervescent · sprightly · cheerful · merry · playful · sunny · frolicsome
- slang moodsbummed, chill, cranky, edgy, grumpy
- moodshappy, sad, angry, anxious, excited
- infatuationcrush, infatuation, infatuated, smitten, first love
- anticipationanticipating, expectation, expectancy, expecting, awaiting
- foolishfoolish, stupid, dumb, brainless, witless
- festive moodsfestive, merry, jolly, joyful, joyous
giddydepressed
Persistently sad, spiritless
melancholy · somber · downcast · downhearted · forlorn
giddysteady
Fixed, not fluctuating
clearheaded · level-headed · composed · collected · grounded
- giddy upCommand to start moving
giddiness, giddying, giddyup, giddily, giddied, giddier, giddiest, giddap