What does woolly mean?
Woolly means Made of wool..
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/ˈwʊli/ · adjective
Made of wool..
Put on a woolly jumper and turn down the thermostat.
Sporting a woolly cardigan with four buttons on top of an Oxford smock without a collar, our man has a faintly folksy look about him, calling to mind a zingaro or a gypsy, a carny or a Mongol, but also (switching to a wholly distinct mythology and iconography) a hippy strumming his guitar in a barroom in Haight-Ashbury or at Big Sur or in Katmandu.
woolly hair
There was nothing left in the fruit bowl but a brown banana and a couple of woolly pears.
My skin is black / My arms are long / My hair is woolly / My back is strong
That's the sort of woolly thinking that causes wars to start.
To call David Lean's Dr Zhivago a translation of Pasternak's novel is not only to disregard the specificity of film art, but to make such woolly use of the word ‘translation’ as to fit it to refer to any kind of transformation. Knitting included.
woolly breeders
Use woolly when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Woolly means Made of wool..
Common synonyms include befuddled, soft, confused, addled.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Put on a woolly jumper and turn down the thermostat.
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