woolly

Plural: woollies

Adjective Satellite

• having a fluffy character or appearance
• confused and vague; used especially of thinking
  • "woolly thinking"
  • "woolly-headed ideas"
• covered with dense often matted or curly hairs
  • "woolly lambs"
• covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments
  • "the woolly aphid has a lanate coat resembling cotton"

Adj

• Made of wool.
• Having a thick, soft texture, as if made of wool.
• Unclear, fuzzy, hazy, cloudy.
• Clothed in wool.
• Cross; irritable.

Noun

• A warm garment made of wool, often pluralized as 'woolies'.
• A sweater or similar garment made of wool.
• A sheep not yet shorn.
• A piece of woolwork.
• A woolly back; someone from the area around Liverpool, not from Liverpool itself.

Adjective

• Consisting of or covered with wool; soft and somewhat tangled.

Examples

• He needed a good word, but only WOOLLY would fit on the cramped board.
• His WOOLLY thinking led to a poor play, costing him crucial points in Scrabble.
• Put on a woolly jumper and turn down the thermostat.
• That's the sort of woolly thinking that causes wars to start.
• There was nothing left in the fruit bowl but a brown banana and a couple of woolly pears.
• woolly hair

Synonyms

addled, befuddled, flocculent, lanate, muddled, muzzy, woolly-haired, woolly-headed, wooly, wooly-haired, wooly-minded

Related Words

WOOLLILY

Anagrams of woolly