grogginess
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4.8
- noun
- /ˈɡrɑːɡi.nəs/
:
somnolencia
- After sleeping poorly last night, she woke up feeling a strong sense of grogginess that made it hard to concentrate.
- leads to grogginess
Examples
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They're dealing with grogginess or crankiness or other effects of having fragmented sleep.
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" The first couple of times I heard that stirring before dawn, I thought, in my grogginess, that all was well.
Fiction book (1993) -
The knocking at the door pulled her out of sleep into grogginess.
Fiction book (1999) -
For a moment, through his grogginess, he felt the weight of his own stupidity.
Fiction book (1994) -
He's still like under the effects of the grogginess of the anesthesia.
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Secondly, what we found is that the those sleeping pills can often come with a grogginess in the morning and some forgetfulness.
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Through his sleepy grogginess, he hears someone hacking at it.
Academic text (2007) -
As I slowly recover from the grogginess of a sleep interrupted by frustration, I feel something brush my knuckle.
Blog text (3) -
"Frankenstein's words were so urgent that they pierced the fog of grogginess that surrounded Summer.
Fiction book (1995) -
Waking out of deep sleep may lead to feelings of grogginess and disorientation for several minutes (a phenomenon called "sleep inertia").
Academic text (1997)
Synonyms
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6.3
A feeling of tiredness and low energy
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1.8
A feeling of being very sleepy and wanting to sleep
A feeling of being slightly dazed and unsteady after shock, illness, or no sleep
A feeling that makes you slow and without energy
A feeling of being heavy, slow, and very tired
Antonyms
How Groggy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Grogginess comes from the sailors' word grog, a name for a rum drink that often left people feeling 'dizzy' or 'half-asleep'. That's why grogginess means the dazed, weak, or only partly awake feeling you get after little sleep, illness, or too much alcohol.