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单词 woozy
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Definition of woozy in English:

woozy

adjectivewooziest, woozier ˈwuːziˈwuzi
informal
  • Unsteady, dizzy, or dazed.

    I still felt woozy from all the pills
    Example sentencesExamples
    • She had put herself on a strict diet to fit into a new bathing suit, hadn't eaten all day, had a few drinks at a friends party, felt woozy and went to lie down.
    • My date, woozy from his first encounter with any sort of alcohol, wandered off about halfway through the first movie.
    • As he was talking I started feeling woozy and my eyelids got heavy.
    • The hospital released her with the tests proving inconclusive, and warned her to be careful if she was feeling slightly woozy or dizzy.
    • I'm a bit of a turkey when it comes to needles, and I'm lying there all locked into place with the coils and headphones, feeling woozy and faint.
    • He began to feel very woozy and weak and eventually went limp.
    • I stumbled around with tissues on my nose and feeling woozy.
    • A sense of vertigo washed over her, leaving a woozy feeling behind.
    • The surge of adrenaline made her woozy and weak.
    • Regressing into a trance-like state as I threw myself back into the mindless world of typing numbers, I began to feel a little woozy at the monotony of it all.
    • I still feel woozy, but this is the first morning since Friday that my first instinct upon getting up wasn't to go lie back down.
    • He felt woozy and light headed now and was afraid it would show.
    • Peter, meanwhile, is battling a 24-hour virus that makes him woozy even as he swings off to rescue Betty at the seasonally closed Coney Island.
    • He felt woozy and dizzy as usual in the morning, and he slowly rocked himself forward, and forced himself up.
    • After my third beer, I started feeling curiously light-headed and woozy.
    • For one rather panicky hour before dinner I thought I'd lost it altogether, feeling woozy and slightly dizzy.
    • So that when your husband comes home, looks into your woozy eyes, and asks you what you've had to eat today, you can in all honesty tell him, ‘Some toast, I think,’ before you pass out.
    • Still a bit woozy, Brian rose unsteadily into a crouch.
    • He felt lightheaded and woozy, and his stomach hurt.
    • All I had to do now was sleep for a while… and get rid of this dopey, woozy feeling so I could run.
    Synonyms
    light-headed, dizzy, giddy, faint
    unsteady, groggy, wobbly, weak
    muzzy, dazed, confused
    informal dopey, not with it
    rare vertiginous

Derivatives

  • woozily

  • adverbˈwuːzɪliˈwuzəli
    informal
    • Afterward, they gather around the fireplace to drink beer, tell stories, and woozily stroll back to their cabins to sink into cozy loft beds.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I'd stumbled out of bed on a cold November morning and was woozily concentrating on inhaling as much tea and cereal as I could before my philosophy class, at eight.
      • The film version has a softer, woozily sentimental view of the bridal couple; it shows them running through a meadow in ecstatic slow motion - really.
      • Doctors and nurses ducked out of sight while Klein woozily plopped himself on the edge of a chair in the middle of the room.
      • ‘So that's how you beat Claire's dad,’ Kate said woozily.
  • wooziness

  • nounˈwuːzɪnəsˈwuzinəs
    informal
    • Amber's wooziness had luckily worn off before they reached her house.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I pushed away my wooziness and asked two questions at once - ‘how are you, and how long was I out?’
      • If I went to a friend's house only to spend one night there, I would have trouble breathing, clammy palms, and wooziness but never to this degree.
      • ‘I'm fine’ I muttered, as I grabbed a plate and put my sister's sandwich on it, ignoring the sudden wooziness I felt.
      • Patients with disequilibrium report feelings of light-headedness, faintness, or wooziness, sometimes involving blackouts.

Origin

Late 19th century: of unknown origin.

Rhymes

bluesy, boozy, choosy, doozy, floozie, jacuzzi, medusae, newsy, oozy, Pusey, snoozy, Susie, Uzi
 
 

Definition of woozy in US English:

woozy

adjectiveˈwuziˈwo͞ozē
informal
  • Unsteady, dizzy, or dazed.

    I still felt woozy from all the pills
    Example sentencesExamples
    • As he was talking I started feeling woozy and my eyelids got heavy.
    • I still feel woozy, but this is the first morning since Friday that my first instinct upon getting up wasn't to go lie back down.
    • So that when your husband comes home, looks into your woozy eyes, and asks you what you've had to eat today, you can in all honesty tell him, ‘Some toast, I think,’ before you pass out.
    • I stumbled around with tissues on my nose and feeling woozy.
    • For one rather panicky hour before dinner I thought I'd lost it altogether, feeling woozy and slightly dizzy.
    • My date, woozy from his first encounter with any sort of alcohol, wandered off about halfway through the first movie.
    • I'm a bit of a turkey when it comes to needles, and I'm lying there all locked into place with the coils and headphones, feeling woozy and faint.
    • He began to feel very woozy and weak and eventually went limp.
    • Regressing into a trance-like state as I threw myself back into the mindless world of typing numbers, I began to feel a little woozy at the monotony of it all.
    • All I had to do now was sleep for a while… and get rid of this dopey, woozy feeling so I could run.
    • Still a bit woozy, Brian rose unsteadily into a crouch.
    • A sense of vertigo washed over her, leaving a woozy feeling behind.
    • Peter, meanwhile, is battling a 24-hour virus that makes him woozy even as he swings off to rescue Betty at the seasonally closed Coney Island.
    • He felt woozy and dizzy as usual in the morning, and he slowly rocked himself forward, and forced himself up.
    • The hospital released her with the tests proving inconclusive, and warned her to be careful if she was feeling slightly woozy or dizzy.
    • She had put herself on a strict diet to fit into a new bathing suit, hadn't eaten all day, had a few drinks at a friends party, felt woozy and went to lie down.
    • He felt lightheaded and woozy, and his stomach hurt.
    • After my third beer, I started feeling curiously light-headed and woozy.
    • The surge of adrenaline made her woozy and weak.
    • He felt woozy and light headed now and was afraid it would show.
    Synonyms
    light-headed, dizzy, giddy, faint

Origin

Late 19th century: of unknown origin.

 
 
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