light-headed

See also: lightheaded

English

Alternative forms

• lightheaded

Etymology

From light (“lacking weight or mental gravity”, adjective) +‎ headed (“having a head”, adjective).

Adjective

light-headed (comparative lighter-headed or more light-headed, superlative lightest-headed or most light-headed)

1. Dizzy or feeling faint, usually as a result of a drop in blood pressure to the brain; delirious.
2. (figuratively) Thoughtless; volatile; frivolous.

Synonyms

• (dizzy): giddy
• (thoughtless): heedless, unsteady, fickle, unaware, inattentive, careless, silly

Derived terms

• light-headedly (adverb)
• lightheadedness (noun)

 

Related terms

• lighthearted

Translations

feeling faint

• Arabic: دَائِخ m (dāʔiḵ)
• Dutch: licht in het hoofd
• German: benommen (de)
• Greek: λιπόθυμος (el) (lipóthymos)
• Hungarian: szédül (hu) (a verb), kóválygó(s) (hu), kába (hu), kábult (hu), bódult (hu)
• Irish: aertha
• Maori: aniroro, pōātinitini
• Ottoman Turkish: خفیف (hafif)
• Russian: (у кого-то) кружится голова́ ((u kovo-to) kružitsja golová)
• Spanish: mareado (es), aturdido (es)

Anagrams

• headlighted