woolly

About 0.67 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Made of wool.

   Put on a woolly jumper and turn down the thermostat.

2. adjective Having a thick, soft texture, as if made of wool.

   woolly hair

3. adjective Unclear, fuzzy, hazy, cloudy.

   That's the sort of woolly thinking that causes wars to start.

4. adjective Clothed in wool.
5. adjective Cross; irritable.
6. adjective Uncivilized and unruly.

   wild and woolly

7. noun A sweater or similar garment made of wool.
8. noun A sheep not yet shorn.

Similar words

lanate flocculent wooly-minded wooly woolly-headed hairy hirsute muzzy addled soft

Often followed by

hair mammoth rhinoceros and head mammoths heads monkey hairs

Word family

woolie woolier woolies wooliest woollier woollies woolliest woollily woolliness woollinesses