Unsteady vs Giddy - What's the difference?
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Not held firmly in position, physically unstable.
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*:"Mid-Lent, and the Enemy grins," remarked Selwyn as he started for church with Nina and the children. Austin, knee-deep in a dozen Sunday supplements, refused to stir; poor little Eileen was now convalescent from grippe, but still unsteady on her legs; her maid had taken the grippe, and now moaned all day:"
Noted for lack of regularity or uniformity.
Inconstant in purpose, or volatile in behavior.
To render unsteady, removing balance.
Dizzy, feeling dizzy or unsteady and as if about to fall down.
Causing dizziness: causing dizziness or a feeling of unsteadiness.
Lightheartedly silly, or joyfully elated.
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* 1784 , , Tirocinium; or, A Review of Schools
(obsolete) To make dizzy or unsteady.
To reel; to whirl.
Unsteady is a related term of giddy.
As adjectives the difference between unsteady and giddy
is that unsteady is not held firmly in position, physically unstable while giddy is dizzy, feeling dizzy or unsteady and as if about to fall down.As verbs the difference between unsteady and giddy
is that unsteady is to render unsteady, removing balance while giddy is (obsolete|transitive) to make dizzy or unsteady.unsteady
English
Adjective
(er)Synonyms
* (not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over) precarious, rickety, shaky, tottering, unsafe, unstable, wobblyAntonyms
* steadyVerb
giddy
English
Adjective
(er)- The man became giddy upon standing up so fast.
- They climbed to a giddy height.
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- The boy was giddy when he opened his birthday presents.
- In brief, since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose that the world can say against it; and therefore never flout at me for what I have said against it, for man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.
- Young heads are giddy and young hearts are warm,
- And make mistakes for manhood to reform.
Synonyms
* dizzyDerived terms
* giddinessSee also
* vertiginousVerb
- (Chapman)