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Woolly

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Adjective

1. flocculent, woolly, wooly

having a fluffy character or appearance

2. addled, befuddled, muddled, muzzy, woolly, woolly-headed, wooly, wooly-minded

confused and vague; used especially of thinking

Example Sentences:
'muddleheaded ideas'
'your addled little brain'
'woolly thinking'
'woolly-headed ideas'

3. woolly, woolly-haired, wooly, wooly-haired

covered with dense often matted or curly hairs

Example Sentences:
'woolly lambs'

4. lanate, woolly

covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments

Example Sentences:
'the woolly aphid has a lanate coat resembling cotton'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Woolly

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adjectiveWord forms: woollier, woolliestWord forms: sometimes US woolier or wooliest
1. 
consisting of, resembling, or having the nature of wool
2. 
covered or clothed in wool or something resembling it
3. 
lacking clarity or substance
woolly thinking
4. botany
covered with long soft whitish hairs
woolly stems
5. US
recalling the rough and lawless period of the early West of America (esp in the phrase wild and woolly)
nounWord forms: plural woollies or sometimes US woolies
6. (often plural)
a garment, such as a sweater, made of wool or something similar
7. Western US and Australian (usually plural) an informal word for sheep

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Woolly

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adjectiveWord forms: ˈwoollier or ˈwoolliest
1. 
of or like wool
2. 
bearing wool
3. 
covered with wool or something resembling wool in texture
4.  US
having characteristics of the early frontier life of the western U.S.; rough and uncivilized
used chiefly in wild and woolly
5. 
tangled and confused; fuzzy
woolly ideas
nounWord forms: plural ˈwoollies US
6.  West
a sheep
7. 
a. 
a woolen garment, esp. one with a fleecelike surface
b.  [pl.]
long underwear made of wool

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Woolly

see synonyms of woolly
adj. wool·li·er, wool·li·est also wool·i·er or wool·i·est
1.
a. Relating to, consisting of, or covered with wool.
b. Resembling wool.
2.
a. Lacking sharp detail or clarity: woolly television reception.
b. Mentally or intellectually disorganized or unclear: woolly thinking.
3. Rough, disorderly, or unrestrained: "newspaper ads called for ... stricter gun control everywhere in this wild and woolly nation" (Ed McBain).
n. pl. wool·lies also wool·ies
1. A garment made of wool, especially an undergarment of knitted wool.
2. Australian A sheep.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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