woolly Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite having a fluffy character or appearance
    flocculent; wooly.
  2. adjective satellite confused and vague; used especially of thinking
    wooly; muddled; muzzy; addled; befuddled; woolly-headed; wooly-minded.
    • muddleheaded ideas
    • your addled little brain
    • woolly thinking
    • woolly-headed ideas
  3. adjective satellite covered with dense often matted or curly hairs
    wooly; wooly-haired; woolly-haired.
    • woolly lambs
  4. adjective satellite covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments
    lanate.
    • the woolly aphid has a lanate coat resembling cotton

WordNet

Wool"ly adjective
Definitions
  1. Consisting of wool; as, a woolly covering; a woolly fleece.
  2. Resembling wool; of the nature of wool. "My fleece of woolly hair." Shak.
  3. Clothed with wool. "Woolly breeders." Shak.
  4. (Bot.) Clothed with a fine, curly pubescence resembling wool.

Webster 1913