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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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