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adjective

Light-headed adj.

Disordered in the head; dizzy; feeling faint; delirious.

Synonyms: faint, swooning, lightheaded.

Thoughtless; heedless; volatile; unsteady; fickle; loose; lacking seriousness; given to frivolity; as, light-headed teenagers. "Light-headed, weak men."

Synonyms: airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, featherbrained, giddy, lightheaded, silly.

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Etymology of 'Light-headed'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Light-headed" Quotes from Famous Books

... I will buy him, though remember it is chiefly to remove any anxiety from your mind about him.' 'This is no time for bargaining,' said I, 'if you wish to have the horse for a hundred guineas, you may; if not—' 'A hundred guineas!' said the surgeon. 'My good friend, you must surely be light-headed; allow me to feel your pulse,' and he attempted to feel my left wrist. 'I am not light-headed,' said I, 'and I require no one to feel my pulse; but I should be light-headed if I were to sell my horse for less than I have demanded; ...

— The Romany Rye - A Sequel to 'Lavengro' • George Borrow

... "No. 19 is light-headed, sir, and I have been listening to him. It would make a cat laugh," said Hodges apologetically. He knew well enough the governor did not approve of ...

— It Is Never Too Late to Mend • Charles Reade

... could hardly believe, however, and continued to regard the upside down odd lettering, when the sailor, who had so unceremoniously disturbed him, motioned him to get out. Mr. Heatherbloom obeyed; he felt very stiff and somewhat light-headed, but he steadied himself against the woodwork. The sailor drew a dipperful of hot tea from a samovar and thrust it into his hand. He drank with avidity; after which the sailor made him to understand he ...

— A Man and His Money • Frederic Stewart Isham

... poor Ryan and that of the gallant fellows who had fallen in our ill-planned attack upon the occupants of this unlucky creek, as well as upon my own future, the uncertainty of which stood out the more clearly the longer I looked at it. I think I must have become slightly light-headed eventually, for twice or thrice I caught myself muttering aloud in a rather excited fashion, now imagining myself to be in the thick of the fight once more, and anon fancying myself to be one of the slaves that were imprisoned in the brigantine's noisome ...

— The Pirate Slaver - A Story of the West African Coast • Harry Collingwood

... snow white glories" "mild Arcadians ever blooming" "seas of milk and ships of amber" these are things the Muse talks about when, to borrow H. Walpole's witty phrase, she is not finely-phrenzied, only a little light-headed, that's all. "Purple locks." They may manage things differently in fairy land, but your "golden tresses" are more to my fancy. The spirit of the Earth is a most happy conceit, and the last line is one of the luckiest I ever heard—"and stood up beautiful before the cloudy seat." ...

— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Vol. 5 • Edited by E. V. Lucas

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