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Cottony

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Of or resembling cotton; fluffy.

adj. Covered with fibers resembling cotton; nappy.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Having some characteristics of cotton; soft and fluffy

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly.

adj. Of or pertaining to cotton; resembling cotton in appearance or character; soft, like cotton.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Like cotton; downy; nappy. Also formerly cottonous.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. resembling cotton; as soft as cotton

Word Usage

"That like a broken purpose waste in air; and dappled with hanging mists, white as snow, and 'sun-clouds,' as the natives term the cottony nimbus -- is easily mistaken, in the dim light of dawn, for a line of towering cliffs."

Equivalent

soft

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

downy nappy woolly

Same Context

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