Woolly

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Relating to, consisting of, or covered with wool.
  • adj. Resembling wool.
  • adj. Lacking sharp detail or clarity: woolly television reception.
  • adj. Mentally or intellectually disorganized or unclear: woolly thinking.
  • adj. Having the characteristics of the rough, generally lawless atmosphere of the American frontier: wild and woolly.
  • n. A garment made of wool, especially an undergarment of knitted wool.
  • n. Australian A sheep.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Made of wool.
  • adj. Having a thick, soft texture, as if made of wool.
  • adj. Of thinking, principles, etc, based on emotion rather than logic.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Consisting of wool.
  • adj. Resembling wool; of the nature of wool.
  • adj. Clothed with wool.
  • adj. Clothed with a fine, curly pubescence resembling wool.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Con sisting of wool; fleecy: as, the woolly coat of the sheep, of a young seal, etc.
  • Resembling wool; exhibiting woolliness; having the appearance of wool: as, woolly hair; woolly clouds.
  • Clothed or covered with wool, or something like it; pubescent; flocculent.
  • In hot., covered with a pubescence of long and soft hairs like wool; lanate; tomentose.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments
  • adj. having a fluffy character or appearance
  • adj. covered with dense often matted or curly hairs
  • adj. confused and vague; used especially of thinking
  • Equivalent
    hairy    haired    hirsute    soft    confused   
    Variant
    woollier    woolliest   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Woolley    bully    fully    pulley    wooley    wooly   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    fluffy    woolen    shaggy    fuzzy    curly    snow-white    reddish    fleecy    tawny    sodden