adjective
- whirling; spinning; rotary: vertiginous currents of air.
- affected with vertigo; dizzy.
- liable or threatening to cause vertigo: a vertiginous climb.
- apt to change quickly; unstable: a vertiginous economy.
adjective
- of, relating to, or having vertigo
- producing dizziness
- whirling
- changeable; unstable
c.1600, “of the nature of vertigo,” from French vertigineux, from Latin vertiginosus “suffering from dizziness,” from vertigo (see vertigo).
adj.
- Affected by vertigo; dizzy.
- Tending to produce vertigo.