having a fluffy character or appearance
Used in a Sentence
woolly
How to use woolly in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for woolly.
Editorial note
Velvet pillows, safari parks, sunglasses; people have become woolly mice.
Examples8
Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
having a fluffy character or appearance
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of woolly gathered in one view.
confused and vague; used especially of thinking; "muddleheaded ideas"; "your addled little brain"; "woolly thinking"; "woolly-headed ideas"
covered with dense often matted or curly hairs; "woolly lambs"
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for woolly.
adjective
having a fluffy character or appearance
See also: flocculent, wooly
adjective
confused and vague; used especially of thinking; "muddleheaded ideas"; "your addled little brain"; "woolly thinking"; "woolly-headed ideas"
See also: addled, befuddled, muddled, muzzy, wooly, woolly-headed, wooly-minded
adjective
covered with dense often matted or curly hairs; "woolly lambs"
See also: wooly, wooly-haired, woolly-haired
adjective
covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments; "the woolly aphid has a lanate coat resembling cotton"
See also: lanate
Example sentences
Velvet pillows, safari parks, sunglasses; people have become woolly mice.
Go ahead, try and find me jpeg of a woolly mammoth of a woman carrying a classic traditional wooden stocked hunting shotgun to prove me wrong.
It dismisses the entire article with a woolly generality like "good engineering practice".
It's like finding a free herd of sheep; eating them would be naughty and possibly illegal, but I'm seeing good opportunities in fleecing them and selling woolly sweaters to keep out the chill.
Avoiding PHP is not something the average blogger would care about, bloat = features and most normal people like features, trying something different is woolly at best, which leaves wanting to use markdown.
Between the device diversity, the user experience diversity, and the release diversity, and the app experience diversity it is a wild and woolly place which has not been able to compete well with iPad.
It's certainly speculation with a linkbait title, but the apparent consistency between Clemente and Feinstein makes it not-completely-woolly speculation.
It had simple explanations of how tons of different mechanisms work, but it had an entire chapter dedicated to explaining how digital systems could work, using woolly mammoths and various sorts of pie transportation devices.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use woolly in a sentence?
Velvet pillows, safari parks, sunglasses; people have become woolly mice.
What does woolly mean?
having a fluffy character or appearance
What part of speech is woolly?
woolly is commonly used as adjective.