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Definition of Lightheaded
1. Adjective. Weak and likely to lose consciousness. "Light-headed from lack of sleep"
Similar to: Ill, Sick
Derivative terms: Faint, Faintness, Lightheadedness
2. Adjective. Lacking seriousness; given to frivolity. "Silly giggles"
Similar to: Frivolous
Derivative terms: Giddiness, Lightheadedness, Silliness
Definition of Lightheaded
1. a. Disordered in the head; dizzy; delirious.
Definition of Lightheaded
1. Adjective. Dizzy or feeling faint, usually caused by a drop in blood pressure to the brain. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lightheaded
Literary usage of Lightheaded
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. U. S. Navy Diving Manual: Air DivingSports & Recr (1999)
"... the potential causes of these disorders are in order to decide the possibility
of injury to the diver. 8-4.1 lightheaded or Dizzy Diver on the Bottom. ..."
2. The Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery edited by Lunsford Pitts Yandell, Theodore Stout Bell (1846)
"The eleventh, slept, remembered every thing, but in a little time grew lightheaded.
After the convulsions made a great deal of water in a little while (the ..."
3. What Gunpowder Plot Was by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1897)
"Sir James Lindsay, he said, had disgusted his Majesty, and the Pope would in the
end discover that he was a lightheaded, unstable man. I understood, said I, ..."
4. A Treasury of English Sonnets by David M. Main (1881)
"Addressed respectfully tfi the lightheaded of society at large : but intended
more particularly for the ..."
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