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発音

• IPA^(key): /vɜː(ɹ)ˈtɪd͡ʒɪnəs/

形容詞

vertiginous (comparative more vertiginous, superlative most vertiginous)

1. Having an aspect of great depth, drawing the eye to look downwards.
2. (pharmacology) Inducing a feeling of giddiness, vertigo, dizziness or of whirling.
3. Pertaining to vertigo (in all its meanings).
   • 2023 March 15, Kevin Roose, “GPT-4 Is Exciting and Scary”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     GPT-4 didn’t give me an existential crisis. But it exacerbated the dizzy and vertiginous feeling I’ve been getting whenever I think about A.I. lately.

4. Revolving; rotating; rotatory.

派生語

• vertiginously
• vertiginousness

参照

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “vertiginous”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.