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Meaning of 'woolly' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Woolly [ a.]
- Consisting of wool; as, a woolly covering; a woolly fleece.
- Resembling wool; of the nature of wool.
- Clothed with wool.
- Clothed with a fine, curly pubescence resembling wool.

Meaning of 'woolly' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . woolly [ s]
Meaning (1):
- confused and vague; used especially of thinking
Example in sentence:
  • muddleheaded ideas;
  • woolly thinking;
  • woolly-headed ideas;
  • your addled little brain
Meaning (2):
- covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments
Example in sentence:
  • the woolly aphid has a lanate coat resembling cotton
Meaning (3):
- covered with dense often matted or curly hairs
Example in sentence:
  • woolly lambs

Nearby Words:

woo wood wood tick wood's metal wood-bound wood-layer wood-note wood-sare wood-sere wood-wash

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