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How to pronounce woolly in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms addled, befuddled, muddled, muzzy, woolly-headed, wooly, wooly-minded


woolly thinking.
woolly-headed ideas.
Type Words
Synonyms woolly-haired, wooly, wooly-haired
Derivation wool


woolly lambs.
Type Words
Synonyms flocculent, wooly
Type Words
Synonyms lanate


the woolly aphid has a lanate coat resembling cotton.

Examples of woolly

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They are hoping that the elephant will give birth to a real-live woolly mammoth.
From the abcnews.go.com
The Tibetan woolly rhino was stocky like today's rhino but had long, thick hair.
From the sciencedaily.com
Guest stars include computer-generated woolly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers.
From the sacbee.com
The other new lawsuit is a little more woolly and probably will come to nothing.
From the techcrunch.com
It is a woolly ruminantquadruped that probably descended from the wild moufflon.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Surviving the last ice age was more than just a matter of growing a woolly coat.
From the newscientist.com
The hemlock woolly adelgid, native to Asia, was discovered in Virginia in 1951.
From the sacbee.com
Drifting deep pools near Stateline with big woolly buggers has been getting fish.
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Alpacas can be pretty amorous devils, and now she has 24 of the woolly creatures.
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More examples
  • Flocculent: having a fluffy character or appearance
  • Addled: confused and vague; used especially of thinking; "muddleheaded ideas"; "your addled little brain"; "woolly thinking"; "woolly-headed ideas"
  • Wooly: covered with dense often matted or curly hairs; "woolly lambs"
  • Lanate: covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments; "the woolly aphid has a lanate coat resembling cotton"
  • Made of wool; Having a thick, soft texture, as if made of wool; Of thinking, principles, etc, based on emotion rather than logic
  • Densely covered with matted long hairs. Fig. 14 F. cf. tomentose, villous.
  • Having long, soft, more or less matted hairs; like wool.
  • Like the rough, vigorous atmosphere of the early West in America:
  • Covered with long, soft, whitish hairs.