noun
1. a dazed and staggering state caused by alcohol
• Derivationally related forms: ↑groggy
• Hypernyms: ↑drunkenness, ↑inebriation, ↑inebriety, ↑intoxication, ↑tipsiness, ↑insobriety
2. a groggy state resulting from weariness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑groggy
3. marginal consciousness
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his grogginess was caused as much by exhaustion as by the blows
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someone stole his wallet while he was in a drunken stupor
• Syn: ↑stupor, ↑stupefaction, ↑semiconsciousness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑semiconscious (for: ↑semiconsciousness), ↑stuporous (for: ↑stupor)
• Hypernyms: ↑unconsciousness
Useful english dictionary. 2012.