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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling; "had a dizzy spell"; "a dizzy pinnacle"; "had a headache and felt giddy"; "a giddy precipice"; "feeling woozy from the blow on his head"; "a vertiginous climb up the face of the cliff" [syn: dizzy, giddy, woozy, vertiginous]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (woozier; -est) Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1897 1. mentally unclear or hazy <seems a little woozy, not quite knowing what to say — J. A. Lukacs> 2. affected with dizziness, mild nausea, or weakness 3. having a soft, indistinct, or unfocused quality ; vague, fuzzy <woozy…prose and vaguely beneficent statements — Roz Kaveney> • woozily adverb • wooziness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (woozier, wooziest) colloq. 1 dizzy or unsteady. 2 dazed or slightly drunk. 3 vague. Derivatives: woozily adv. wooziness n. Etymology: 19th c.: orig. unkn.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you feel woozy, you feel rather weak and unsteady and cannot think clearly. (INFORMAL) The fumes made them woozy. ? alert ADJ: usu v-link ADJ