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UKvertiginous
/vɜːtˈɪdʒɪnəs/
/vɜːtˈɪdʒɪnəs/vertiginous
[ADJECTIVE]
Examples
1. Look at those vertiginous heels and think, what on Earth are you going to do with those?
2. The vertiginous decline of unionization in the state since really the early 1970s has been extraordinary, where you had 35 percent of workers unionized, and today it's 10 percent.
3. But then on a watercolor like the one at right, you get this sense of like deep space and you get this sense of vortex or this kind of like vertiginous pull and he's able to create like depth in that way.
4. My mother-in-law was taken in a school party to see a matinee that spring, from the vertiginous new upper gallery, just as I would be taken to see Henry V a generation later, and she well remembers the theatre’s new Shakespearean royal carpet, a sample of which (thanks to some work my generous father-in-law did for Axminster a little afterwards) now adorns my office upstairs.
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