Groggy

Definition: Groggy

Groggy

Adjective

1. Stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "groggy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references)

Synonyms: Groggy

Drunkenness

Adjective: drunk, tipsy; intoxicated; inebrious, inebriate, inebriated; in one's cups; in a state of intoxication;Noun: 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.

Crosswords: Groggy

Czech (dopey, groggy), French (groggy, stunned), German (all in, bushed, groggy), Spanish (groggy, shocked), Swedish (slaphappy).

Health

After the seizure ends, the person will probably be groggy and tired. (references)

People awakened during deep sleep do not adjust immediately and often feel groggy and disoriented for several minutes after they wake up. Some children experience bedwetting, night terrors, or sleepwalking during deep sleep. (references)

Human Rights

Guyana

Witnesses said that an unarmed and groggy Stanton unlocked the door and had his hands raised above his head. (references)

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Expressions using "groggy": be groggy ♦ feel groggy. Additional references.

Albanian

që i merren këmbët, i pirë (drunk, drunken, high, loaded, muzzy), i dehur (boozy, crocked, drunk, drunken, elevated, exhilarated, far gone, going far, inebriate, jagged, lit, muzzy, oiled, pissed, potted, queer, screwed up, screwy, sozzled, tanked), i bërë xurxull. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مترنح (drunken, faltering, reeling, rocky, shaky, staggering, tottering, tottery), ‏سكران (boozer, boozy, canned, drunk, drunken, flat, inebriate, intoxicated, loaded, pickled, pissed, plastered, screwed up, squiffy, tanked, tipsy). (various references)

Bulgarian 

уморен (beaten, tired, washed out, whacked), куц (halt, lame, limping), който се олюлява, гроги, нестабилен (crank, dicky, doddery, insecure, tottery, uncertain, unsound, unstable, unsteady, wonky), замаян (dizzy, giddy, light, light-headed, poppied, punch-drunk, rocky, silly, woozy), без сили, пийнал (blotto, exhilarated, fresh, glorious, half seas over, lit, mellow, merry, muzzy, rocky, sprung, tipsy, vinous). (various references)

Chinese 

昏昏沉沉. (various references)

Czech

groggy (dopey), vratký (halting, insecure, loose, rickety, specious, top heavy, unstable, unsteady), nejistý na nohou. (various references)

Farsi 

مست (Drunk, Drunken, Sot, Souse, Tipsy), تلوتلوخورنده , سست (Atonic, Effeminate, Feckless, Floppy, Frail, Inactive, Indolent, Insecure, Languid, Lax, Lethargic, Loose, Mild, Rattletrap, Remiss, Rickety, Shaky, Slack, Sleazy, Slender, Slothful, Supine, Tardy, Tepid, Torpid, Weak). (various references)

French

groggy. (various references)

German

taumelig (dizzy, giddy, groggily), groggy (all in, bushed), betrunkene (drunk, drunkard, drunkenly), angeschlagenem. (various references)

Greek 

μεθυσμένοσ (drunk, drunken, inebriate, intoxicated, plastered, soused, tight), ζαλισμένος (dazed, dizzy, perplexed), ετοιμόρροποσ (crumbly, decrepit, derelict, floppy, ramshackle, tottery, tumble down). (various references)

Hebrew 

לא יציב (inconstant, shaky, spotty, unsettled, unstable, unsteady), תשוש וכושל. (various references)

Hungarian

tántorgó (giddy-paced, staggering, wonky). (various references)

Indonesian

gugup (jittery, nervous, panicky), pusing (dizzy, giddy, headache, light-headed). (various references)

Italian

intontito (dazed, muzzy, numb, stunned), barcollante (faltering, staggering, tottery). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

グロー�"�電 (cage, cake, case, case by case, case method, case study, casework, caseworker, chaos, chassis ground, frame ground, gloria, glossary, glow discharge, grotesque, knock-out, KO). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

グロッキー . (various references)

Manx

lieh-scooyrit (half-seas-over, maudlin). (various references)

Norwegian

omtåket. (various references)

Pig Latin

oggygray.(various references)

Portuguese

grogue (grog), embriagado (bosky, drunken, inebriate, intoxicated, lushed, pickled, plastered, tipsy), cambaleante (tottering, tottery, vacillating). (various references)

Romanian

slab (adynamic, angular, bad, cold, cranky, crazy, dicky, dim, Dotty, dull, faint, faintly, feckless, feeble, feebly, female, flabby, flaccid, flat, fleshless, flimsy, footless, forceless, frail, gaunt, helpless, impotent, inner, jaded, jejune, languid, languishing, languorous, lax, lean, Lenten, light, loose, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, milk and water, namby-pamby, nerveless, one horse, pale, peaked, penny-a-line, pimping, poor, poorly, powerless, quiet, remotely, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, shaky, sickly, silly, skinny, slack, slight, small, soft, sorry, spare, squeal, stringent, tender, thin, washy, weak, weakly), nesigur pe picioare (dotty on his legs), matolit, instabil (broken, catching, easy, ticklish, unstable), fãrã putere (adynamic, powerless, washy, weakly), care se clatinã (Dotty, rocky), beat (befuddled, boozy, cock eyed, drunk, drunken, elevated, in drink, in one's cups, in wine, inebriate, intoxicated, muzzy, on the fuddle, pickled, pie-eyed, queer, screwed, sottish, squiffed, tight, tipsy), ameţit (bewildered, confounded, dizzy, flustered, giddy, inebriate, intoxicated, moony, muzzy, queer, screwed, silly, squiffy, stupid, tipsy, wild). (various references)

Russian 

шаткий (crazy, grog, shaky, wabbly, wobbly, wonky), обалделый (slaphappy), неустойчивый (astable, changeable, dicky, erratic, grog, inconstant, infirm, labile, ramshackle, top heavy, topheavy, unballasted, unequable, unstable, unsteady, waggly, wavering, yielding), нетвердый на ногах (doddering, doddery, grog), непрочный (built on sand, flimsy, frail, haywire, insubstantial, perishable, rotten, sleazy, unsubstantial). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

grogi (slaphappy), teturav, pijan (cock eyed, cockeye, crocked, drunk, inebriate, inebriated, loaded, potted, smashed, sottish, soused, sozzled, stewed, stinking, stoned). (various references)

Spanish

groggy (shocked), mareado (airsick, dizzy, giddy, light-headed, queasy, seasick), flojo (dull, fading, feeble, flabby, flagging, floppy, fluffily, forceless, idle, lame, lax, limber, limp, loose, loosely, milk and water, nerveless, sagging, slack, sluggish, soft, supine, thin, threadbare, tipsily, unfirm, unformal, ungirt, unsteadily, watery, weak, wishy washy, wobbly, wonky). (various references)

Swedish

ostadig (cranky, fickle, shaky, uncertain, unstable, unsteady, wobbly, wonky), drucken (drunk, drunken, inbriate, intoxicated, tipsy). (various references)

Thai

มึนงง. (various references)

Turkish

yalpalayan (tottery, wavering), sendeleyen (shaking, staggering, tottering, tottery, tripping, vacillating, wobbly), sarhoş (bacchant, beery, besotted, blind drunk, blotto, bombed, boozed, boozer, boozy, canned, cockeyed, corked, drunk, drunkard, drunken, fried, high, intoxicated, jagged, lit, lit up, loaded, nappy, oiled, pickled, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, queer, screwed, sloshed, smashed, sodden, sot, sottish, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stewed, stiff, stinking, stinko, stoned, tanked, tight, under the influence, under the influence of drink, under the weather, well oiled, winy, woozy, zonked), halsiz (drooping, droopy, exhausted, faint, infirm, languid, languorous, prostrate, run down, senile, sluggish, very tired, washy, weak, weakly, wonky), ayakta duramayan. (various references)

Ukrainian

нестійкий (astatic, broken, catching, chancy, dicky, drunk, erratic, infirm, labile, non-persistent, non-resistant, quaky, sliding, staggering, tickle, top heavy, unbalanced, unfixed, unsettled, unsteady, wambly, yielding), нетвердий на ногах (doddery), захмелілий, п'яний (banged, blind drunk, boiled, boozy, canned, disguised, drunk, drunken, inebriate, intoxicate, lush, malty, noggy, pickled, pie-eyed, pizz, plastered, raddled, screwed, sodden, soused, sozzled, sozzly, under the table, vinous, wall eyed, wet, winy, woozy, zigzag). (various references)

Vietnamese 

say lảo đảo nghiêng ngả. (various references)

Misspellings

"Groggy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: droggy, Geogg, Glogg, gogy, googy, greggi, Greigy, grigg, Grigny, grogie, preggy, proggy, roggy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: gory, grog, gyro, orgy.

-3 letters: gor, goy.

-4 letters: go, or, oy, yo.

+2 letters: groggery, groggily.