Giddy vs. Happy — What's the Difference?

Having a reeling, lightheaded sensation; dizzy.

Feeling or showing pleasure or contentment

Causing or capable of causing dizziness

Fortunate and convenient

Frivolous and lighthearted; flighty

Inclined to use a specified thing excessively or at random

To become or make giddy.

Enjoying, showing, or marked by pleasure, satisfaction, or joy

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

Cheerful; willing

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

Characterized by good luck

Moving around something or spinning rapidly.

Being especially well-adapted; felicitous

(by extension)

Characterized by a spontaneous or obsessive inclination to use something. Often used in combination

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

Enthusiastic about or involved with to a disproportionate degree. Often used in combination

Joyfully elated; overcome with excitement or happiness.

Having a feeling arising from a consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, such as comfort, peace, or tranquillity; blissful, contented, joyous.

Feeling great anger; furious, raging.

Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky, propitious.

Of an animal, chiefly a sheep: affected by brain]] by tapeworm larvae, which may result in the animal turning around aimlessly.

Content, willing, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something).

Of a thing, especially a ship: unsteady, as if dizzy.

(Of acts, speech, etc.) Appropriate, apt, felicitous.

Someone or something that is frivolous or impulsive.

(in combination) Favoring or inclined to use.

Synonym of gid

Dexterous, ready, skilful.

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

Implying 'May you have a happy ~' or similar; used in phrases to wish someone happiness or good fortune at the time of a festival, celebration, or other event or activity.

(intransitive)

A happy event, thing, person, etc.

To become dizzy or unsteady.

Often followed by up: to become happy; to brighten up, to cheer up.

(obsolete) To move around something or spin rapidly; to reel; to whirl.

Often followed by up: to make happy; to brighten, to cheer, to enliven.

Having in the head a sensation of whirling or reeling about; having lost the power of preserving the balance of the body, and therefore wavering and inclined to fall; lightheaded; dizzy.

Favored by hap, luck, or fortune; lucky; fortunate; successful; prosperous; satisfying desire; as, a happy expedient; a happy effort; a happy venture; a happy omen.

Promoting or inducing giddiness; as, a giddy height; a giddy precipice.

Experiencing the effect of favorable fortune; having the feeling arising from the consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, as peace, tranquillity, comfort; contented; joyous; as, happy hours, happy thoughts.

Bewildering on account of rapid turning; running round with celerity; gyratory; whirling.

Dexterous; ready; apt; felicitous.

Characterized by inconstancy; unstable; changeable; fickle; wild; thoughtless; heedless.

Enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure or good fortune;

To reel; to whirl.

Experiencing pleasure or joy;

To make dizzy or unsteady.

Marked by good fortune;

Having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling;

Satisfied; enjoying well-being and contentment;

Lacking seriousness; given to frivolity;

Exaggerated feeling of well-being or elation

Well expressed and to the point;