The word "vertiginous" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is dizzyingly or disorientingly high, steep, or extreme (e.g., a tall building, a rollercoaster, a challenging task). For example, "The vertiginous peak of Mt. Everest made me dizzy just looking at it."
The cherub-studded interior is vertiginous, but when we go through a tiny door and clamber outside, I am too stunned to suffer from vertigo.
Since then, well over 30 million people have taken the vertiginous but breathtaking half-hour journey, in air-conditioned capsules, up and around what was, until two years ago, the world's biggest ferris wheel.
His selection resembled a White Flag XI but Real Madrid restricted themselves to Karim Benzema's first-half goal and the Liverpool supporters peering down from the Bernabéu's most vertiginous stands would probably have been forgiven for thinking it could have been a lot worse when they saw the side that the manager had put out.
He has also created the Puppa burger, with vertiginous levels of beef and wurstel, grilled aubergines, courgette, carrot, tomato and onion, topped off with a fried egg, all for €5.
The roads remained largely unpaved and vertiginous as I continued along the Andes' spine to the battleground of Ayacucho (in 1824 the Spaniards suffered their final defeat here, which led the independence of Peru), and then down towards the Inca capital of Cuzco.
He was the soloist on Mozart's Violin Concerto No 4, which combined technical precision and a breezy sweetness to exhilarating effect, with Barenboim playing the hire-wire act with two vertiginous solos.
Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 1.26pm BSThe:26 The peloton are huffing and puffing through some particularly vertiginous streets in Haworth.
However, all is not quiet at the home shared by the film's director, Michel Hazanavicius, and it female star, the beautiful Berenice Bejo.They've just had baby Gloria, and in typical French style Berenice was at the French premiere, dancing in vertiginous heels just 10 days after giving birth.
Washington is home to a vertiginous tangle of industry associations, activist groups, think tanks and communications shops.
Poverty's chains Soft science no more ReprintsSigns that the market might again be a little frothy come not only from the vertiginous rise, giddy valuations and punters' enthusiasm for the likes of Softbank, which at one point last week was the mostly highly traded stock on the planet.
Since Sony announced its sale to a Japanese private-equity fund, in February, it has suffered a slump in its market share in Japan to just 2%, down from 10% at the start of 2014.The vertiginous drop will have dismayed Sony, which had kept a tiny stake in the business.
