Crossword-Solution: VERTIGINOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Vertiginous | a. | Turning round; whirling; rotary; revolving; as, vertiginous motion. |
| Vertiginous | a. | Affected with vertigo; giddy; dizzy. |
We have 22 clues for the answer “VERTIGINOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| causing or tending to cause dizziness | 1 answer |
| swimmy | 23 answers |
| altimeric | 37 answers |
| altitudinous | 39 answers |
| skyscraping | 39 answers |
| giddying | 39 answers |
| up high | 40 answers |
| Whirling | 45 answers |
| Spinning | 45 answers |
| declivitous | 45 answers |
| On high | 45 answers |
| Atop | 47 answers |
| perpendicular | 48 answers |
| Precipitous | 50 answers |
| altitudinal | 51 answers |
| Delirious | 51 answers |
| Towering | 52 answers |
| dizzying | 52 answers |
| Steep | 62 answers |
| Elevated | 63 answers |
| Dizzy | 67 answers |
| Light | 114 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEREA
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greedy person
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Sentences with VERTIGINOUS (5)
And what a power they have over the colour of the world! How they ruffle the solid woodlands in their passage, and make them shudder and whiten like a single willow! There is nothing more vertiginous than a wind like this among the woods, with all its sights and noises; and the effect gets between some painters and their sober eyesight, so that, even when the rest of their picture is calm, the foliage is coloured like foliage in a gale.
The sky of the westerly weather is full of flying clouds, of great big white clouds coming thicker and thicker till they seem to stand welded into a solid canopy, upon whose gray face the lower wrack of the gale, thin, black and angry-looking, flies past with vertiginous speed.
These depths, constantly bridged over by a structure firm enough in spite of its lightness and of its occasional oscillation in the somewhat vertiginous air, invited on occasion, in the interest of their nerves, a dropping of the plummet and a measurement of the abyss.
Puffs of wind blew about her head and expired; the sail collapsed, shivered audibly, stood full and still in turn; and again the sensation of vertiginous speed and of absolute immobility succeeding each other with increasing swiftness merged at last into a bizarre state of headlong motion and profound peace.
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.
Quotes with VERTIGINOUS (3)
Love is the strength through which a heart starts speaking, Vertiginous windstorm that opens the door to madness. An inspiration that keeps us awake whilst sleeping, Magical breeze that blows away the sadness.
When walking in this mode we discover the immense vigour of starry night skies, elemental energies, and our appetites follow: they are enormous, and our bodies are satisfied. When you have slammed the world’s door, there is nothing left to hold you: pavements no longer guide your steps (the path, a hundred thousand times repeated, of the return to the fold). Crossroads shimmer like hesitant stars, you rediscover the tremulous fear of choosing, a vertiginous freedom.
... The efficacy of psychedelics with regard to art has to do with their ability to render language weightless, as fluid and ephemeral as those famous "bubble letters" of the sixties. Psychedelics, I think, disconnect both the signifier and the signified from their purported referents in the phenomenal world - simultaneously bestowing upon us a visceral insight into the cultural mechanics of language, and a terrifying inference of the tumultuous nature that swirls beyond it. …