giddy vs scatterbrained

giddy

adj
  • Unable to concentrate or think seriously; easily excited; impulsive; also, lightheartedly silly; frivolous. 

  • Joyfully elated; overcome with excitement or happiness. 

  • Causing or likely to cause dizziness or a feeling of unsteadiness. 

  • Feeling great anger; furious, raging. 

  • Of an animal, chiefly a sheep: affected by gid (“a disease caused by parasitic infestation of the brain by tapeworm larvae”), which may result in the animal turning around aimlessly. 

  • Feeling a sense of spinning in the head, causing a perception of unsteadiness and being about to fall down; dizzy. 

  • Moving around something or spinning rapidly. 

verb
  • To make (someone or something) dizzy or unsteady; to dizzy. 

  • To become dizzy or unsteady. 

scatterbrained

adj
  • Having the qualities of a scatterbrain: absent-minded, forgetful, easily distracted. 

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