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woozy

/ˈwuːzi/

woozy adjective: queasy, dizzy, or disoriented.

Adjective

woozy (comparative woozier, superlative wooziest)

  1. Queasy, dizzy, or disoriented.
    • I got off the rollercoaster feeling a bit woozy.
  2. Intoxicated by drink or drugs.
    Synonyms:
    drunk

woozy meaning in Malayalam and Kannada

woozy in Malayalam

groggy, muzzy, dazed
ലക്കു തെറ്റിയ, ചാഞ്ചാടുന്ന, കാലിനുറപ്പില്ലാത്ത, കാലിടറുന്ന, മദിച്ചാടുന്ന, കാലുറയ്ക്കാത്ത

woozy in Kannada

ಅಸ್ಥಿರವಾದ, ಗೊಂದಲದಿಂದ ಕೂಡಿದ

Synonyms of woozy

All synonyms of woozy

Forms of woozy

comparativewoozier
superlativewooziest

Origin of woozy

From Middle English wosy (“muddy, miry”), from Middle English wose (“mud, slime, ooze”) + -y. Doublet of oozy. Perhaps influenced by boozy.

Words formed from woozy

Words that rhyme with woozy

Questions about woozy

What does woozy mean?
Woozy means queasy, dizzy, or disoriented.
What is woozy in Malayalam?
Woozy in Malayalam is ലക്കു തെറ്റിയ, ചാഞ്ചാടുന്ന, കാലിനുറപ്പില്ലാത്ത. See Woozy meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is woozy?
Woozy is an adjective.
How do you pronounce woozy?
Woozy is pronounced /ˈwuːzi/.

Words near woozy in the dictionary

  1. wooziest
  2. woozily
  3. wooziness
  4. woozing
  5. Woozle effect
  6. woozy
  7. wop
  8. wop top
  9. wop tops
  10. wop wops
  11. wop-wops

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: woozy (page history and authors); woozy (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); woozy (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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