vertiginous

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From Middle French vertigineux, from Latin vertīginōsus.

And a fellow who isn’t afraid of anything; a kind of squirrel, just as he is who climbs to vertiginous heights to shake down nuts. — Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
A much older man--a great, trampling brute of a man, possessed of wealth and fame, and a social altitude positively vertiginous--asks her to marry him. — The Real Adventure, Henry Kitchell Webster
Once again we find Nietzsche thoroughly at ease, if not cheerful, as an atheist, and speaking with vertiginous daring of making chance go on its knees to him. — Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

dizzy, giddy, woozy

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