grogginess

Other forms of grogginess

plural

grogginesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about grogginess

What does grogginess mean?

grogginess means "a dazed and staggering state caused by alcohol". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in grogginess?

grogginess has 3 syllables: grog-gi-ness. The stress falls on "grog".

What is another word for grogginess?

Close synonyms include stupor, stupefaction, semiconsciousness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is grogginess a common word?

grogginess is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.