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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: indistinct or hazy in outline; "a landscape of blurred outlines"; "the trees were just blurry shapes" [syn: bleary, blurred, blurry, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, muzzy]
2: confused and vague; used especially of thinking; "muddleheaded ideas"; "your addled little brain"; "woolly thinking"; "woolly-headed ideas" [syn: addled, befuddled, muddled, muzzy, woolly, wooly, woolly-headed, wooly-minded]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (muzzier; -est) Etymology: perhaps blend of muddled and fuzzy Date: circa 1728 1. a. deficient in brightness ; dull, gloomy <a muzzy day> b. lacking in clarity and precision <his conclusions can be muzzy and naive — Times Literary Supplement> 2. muddled or confused in mind • muzzily adverb • muzziness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (muzzier, muzziest) 1 a mentally hazy; dull, spiritless. b stupid from drinking alcohol. 2 blurred, indistinct. Derivatives: muzzily adv. muzziness n. Etymology: 18th c.: orig. unkn.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Muzzy Muz"zy, a. [Cf. F. muse.] Absent-minded; dazed; muddled; stupid. The whole company stared at me with a whimsical, muzzy look, like men whose senses were a little obfuscated by beer rather then wine. --W. Irving.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If someone feels muzzy, they are confused and unable to think clearly, usually because they are ill or have drunk too much alcohol. (mainly BRIT INFORMAL) = groggy ADJ 2. If a photograph or television picture is muzzy, it is unclear. (mainly BRIT INFORMAL) = fuzzy ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

addlebrained, addled, addleheaded, addlepated, afflicted, beclouded, befuddled, bent, blear-witted, blurred, boiled, bombed, boozy, breathy, canned, choked, choking, cloudy, cockeyed, cockeyed drunk, croaking, crocked, crocko, dizzy, drawling, drawly, dysphonic, elevated, fogged, foggy, fried, fuddlebrained, fuddled, guttural, half-seas over, harsh, hawking, hazy, high, hoarse, illuminated, in a fog, in a muddle, inarticulate, indistinct, lisping, lit, lit up, loaded, lubricated, lushy, mispronounced, misted, misty, muddled, muddleheaded, muddybrained, nasal, oiled, organized, pickled, pie-eyed, pissed, pissy-eyed, plastered, polluted, potted, puzzleheaded, quavering, raddled, scramblebrained, shaking, shaky, shellacked, skunk-drunk, smashed, snuffling, soaked, soused, squiffy, stewed, stifled, stinko, strangled, swacked, tanked, thick, throaty, tight, tremulous, twangy, velar