woolly
adjective
1 woolly
Having a fluffy character or appearance.
synonyms: flocculent, wooly.
Roget 256: rough, uneven, scabrous, scaly, knotted; rugged, rugose†, rugous†; knurly†; asperous†, crisp, salebrous†, gnarled, unpolished, ... show more
Polish: wełniasty, wełnisty
2 woolly
Confused and vague; used especially of thinking:
— Woolly thinking.
— Woolly-headed ideas.
synonyms: addled, befuddled, muddled, muzzy, woolly-headed, wooly, wooly-minded.
3 woolly
Covered with dense often matted or curly hairs:
— Woolly lambs.
synonyms: woolly-haired, wooly, wooly-haired.
Polish: wełniasty, wełnisty
4 woolly
Covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments:
— The woolly aphid has a lanate coat resembling cotton.
synonym: lanate.
Roget 255: smooth; polished etc. v.; leiodermatous†, slick, velutinous†; even; level etc. 213; plane etc. ... show more
Polish: włochaty
Moby thesaurus: bristly, bushy, cirrose, downy, feathery, fleecy, flocculent, flossy, fluffy, furry, fuzzy, hairy, hirsute, hispid, lanate, matted, pilose, pubescent, shagged, shaggy ... show more.
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