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Fleecy

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

adj. Of, resembling, or covered with fleece: fleecy clouds.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Resembling or covered in fleece.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Covered with, made of, or resembling, a fleece.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Covered with wool; woolly: as, a fleecy flock.

Resemblingwool or a fleece: as, fleecy clouds.

Pertaining to or characteristic of wool.

n. A loosely twisted yarn, used for knitting.

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

adj. (of fabrics) having soft nap produced by brushing

Word Usage

"Between the first tap and the second, I was off and away among the stars, clad in fleecy garments, touching each star as I passed in my pursuit of the formulae that would explain the last mystery of life."

Equivalent

soft

Variant

fleeciest fleecier

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

fluff

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Assisi Medici Tbilisi creasy greasy

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

gauzy filmy woolly downy silken