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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: weak and likely to lose consciousness; "suddenly felt faint from the pain"; "was sick and faint from hunger"; "felt light in the head"; "a swooning fit"; "light-headed with wine"; "light-headed from lack of sleep" [syn: faint, light, swooning, light-headed, lightheaded]
2: lacking seriousness; given to frivolity; "a dizzy blonde"; "light-headed teenagers"; "silly giggles" [syn: airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, featherbrained, giddy, light- headed, lightheaded, silly]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1537 1. mentally disoriented ; dizzy 2. lacking in maturity or seriousness ; frivolous • light-headedly adverb • light-headedness noun

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Light-headed Light"-head`ed (-h[e^]d`[e^]d), a. 1. Disordered in the head; dizzy; delirious. --Walpole. 2. Thoughtless; heedless; volatile; unsteady; fickle; loose. ``Light-headed, weak men.'' --Clarendon. -- Light"-head`ed*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you feel light-headed, you feel rather unsteady and strange, for example because you are ill or because you have drunk too much alcohol. ADJ: usu v-link ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Dizzy, vertiginous, giddy. 2. Delirious, wandering. 3. Giddy, heedless, light, thoughtless, frivolous, volatile, indiscreet.