adjective
- Having a fluffy character or appearance.
- synonyms: flocculent, wooly
- Confused and vague; used especially of thinking.
- usage: "muddleheaded ideas"; "your addled little brain"; "woolly thinking"; "woolly-headed ideas"
- synonyms: addled, befuddled, muddled, muzzy, wooly, woolly-headed, wooly-minded
- Covered with dense often matted or curly hairs.
- usage: "woolly lambs"
- synonyms: wooly, wooly-haired, woolly-haired
- Covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments.
- usage: "the woolly aphid has a lanate coat resembling cotton"
- synonyms: lanate
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