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groggy
CIDE DICTIONARY
groggy, a.
- Overcome with grog; tipsy; unsteady on the legs. [1913 Webster]
- Weakened in a fight so as to stagger; -- said of pugilists. [1913 Webster]
- Moving in a hobbling manner, owing to ten der feet; -- said of a horse. Youatt.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
groggy, adj. (groggier, groggiest) incapable or unsteady from being dazed or semi-conscious.
Derivative
groggily adv. grogginess n.
THESAURUS
groggy
abeyant, addled, apathetic, baffled, bedazzled, befuddled, benumbed, bewildered, cataleptic, catatonic, confounded, confused, dazed, dazzled, dead, dilapidated, doddering, dopey, dormant, dull, faint, flat, foul, heavy, in a daze, in a stupor, in a trance, in abeyance, in suspense, inactive, inert, knocked silly, languid, languorous, latent, leaden, lifeless, logy, mazed, muddled, muzzy, numb, numbed, passive, phlegmatic, punch-drunk, punchy, puzzled, ramshackle, reeling, ricketish, rickety, rocky, sedentary, shaky, silly, slack, slaphappy, sleeping, sluggish, slumbering, smoldering, spidery, spindly, staggering, stagnant, standing, static, stunned, stupefied, suspended, tame, teetering, teetery, torpid, tottering, tottery, tumbledown, unaroused, unsteady, weak, weak-kneed, wobbly, woozyROGET THESAURUS
groggy
Drunkenness
N drunkenness, intemperance, drinking, inebriety, inebriation, ebriety, ebriosity, insobriety, intoxication, temulency, bibacity, wine bibbing, comtation, potation, deep potations, bacchanals, bacchanalia, libations, bender, oinomania, dipsomania, delirium tremens, alcohol, alcoholism, mania a potu, drink, alcoholic drinks, blue ruin, grog, port wine, punch, punch bowl, cup, rosy wine, flowing bowl, drop, drop too much, dram, beer, aguardiente, apple brandy, applejack, brandy, brandy smash, chain lightning, champagne, cocktail, gin, ginsling, highball, peg, rum, rye, schnapps, sherry, sling, uisquebaugh, usquebaugh, whisky, xeres, drunkard, sot, toper, tippler, bibber, wine-bibber, lush, hard drinker, gin drinker, dram drinker, soaker, sponge, tun, love pot, toss pot, thirsty soul, reveler, carouser, Bacchanal, Bacchanalian, Bacchal, Bacchante, devotee to Bacchus, bum, guzzler, tavern haunter, drunk, tipsy, intoxicated, inebrious, inebriate, inebriated, in one's cups, in a state of intoxication, temulent, temulentive, bombed, smashed, fuddled, mellow, cut, boozy, fou, fresh, merry, elevated, flustered, disguised, groggy, beery, top-heavy, potvaliant, glorious, potulent, squiffy, overcome, overtaken, whittled, screwed, tight, primed, corned, raddled, sewed up, lushy, nappy, muddled, muzzy, obfuscated, maudlin, crapulous, dead drunk, woozy, buzzed, flush, flushed, inter pocula, in liquor, the worse for liquor, having had a drop too much, half seas over, three sheets in the wind, three sheets to the wind, under the table, drunk as a lord, drunk as a skunk, drunk as a piper, drunk as a fiddler, drunk as Chloe, drunk as an owl, drunk as David's sow, drunk as a wheelbarrow, drunken, bibacious, sottish, given to drink, addicted to drink, addicted to the bottle, toping, nunc est bibendum, Bacchus ever fair and young, drink down all unkindness, O that men should put an enemy in their mouths to.For further exploring for "groggy" in Webster Dictionary Online