What is another word for woolly?

Pronunciation: [wˈʊli] (IPA)

Woolly is a word that is often used to describe something that is fluffy or covered in a thick layer of fur or hair. Synonyms for woolly include fuzzy, fluffy, hairy, shaggy and woolen. These words can be used to describe animals, textiles and even people's hair. The term woolly can also be used to describe a lack of clarity or precision, in which case synonyms include vague, imprecise, ambiguous, and uncertain. Avoid using woolly or its synonyms in formal writing, as they are considered informal and somewhat imprecise. Instead, choose more precise and appropriate vocabulary to convey your message more effectively.

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What are the opposite words for woolly?

The word "woolly" is used to describe something that is soft, fluffly or indistinct. Its antonyms are words that describe something that is hard, defined, straight, crisp and clear. Some of these antonyms include definite, distinct, clear-cut, precise, sharp, defined, straight and smooth. For example, a woolly thought can be replaced with a clear-cut idea. A woolly line can be changed to a straight line. By using the antonyms of woolly, you can better understand and express your thoughts in a more precise and accurate way.

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Usage examples for Woolly

The hair also is less woolly.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham
The hand felt soft and woolly to Tot, but he did not object to it, for Scollops had a merry expression to his face that won the little boy's heart at once.
"Dot and Tot of Merryland"
L. Frank Baum
When the boy had looked the room over and seen all the faces, Scollops helped him to wash his hands and face, to comb his hair and to brush his clothes, and when this task was finished, the woolly doll said: I will now show you why this room is called the laughing chamber.
"Dot and Tot of Merryland"
L. Frank Baum

Famous quotes with Woolly

  • If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm and look at the head that's behind it, because there's almost always something fairly woolly in there.
    Jock Sturges
  • In the Smokies, over 90 percent of Fraser firs—a noble tree, unique to the southern Appalachian highlands—are sick or dying, from a combination of acid rain and the depredations of a moth called the balsam woolly adelgid. Ask a park official what they are doing about it and he will say, “We are monitoring the situation closely.” For this, read: “We are watching them die.”
    Bill Bryson
  • When we look to presumed sources of origin for competing evolutionary explanations of the giraffe's long neck, we find either nothing at all, or only the shortest of speculative conjectures. Length, of course, need not correspond with importance. Garrulous old Polonius, in a rare moment of clarity, reminded us that "brevity is the soul of wit" (and then immediately vitiated his wise observation with a flood of woolly words about Hamlet's Madness.)
    Stephen Jay Gould
  • John Stuart was the quintessence of soft rather than hardcore, a woolly minded man of mush in striking contrast to his steel-edged father.
    Murray Rothbard
  • The scenery and costumes of 'The Wizard of Oz' were all made in New York — Mr. Mitchell was a New York favorite, but the author was undoubtedly a Chicagoan, and therefore a legitimate butt for the shafts of criticism. So the critics highly praised the Poppy scene, the Kansas cyclone, the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, but declared the libretto was very bad and teemed with 'wild and woolly western puns and forced gags.' Now, all that I claim in the libretto of 'The Wizard of Oz' is the creation of the characters of the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, the story of their search for brains and a heart, and the scenic effects of the Poppy Field and the cyclone. These were a part of my published fairy tale, as thousands of readers well know. I have published fifteen books of fairy tales, which may be found in all prominent public and school libraries, and they are entirely free, I believe, from the broad jokes the New York critics condemn in the extravaganza, and which, the New York people are now laughing over. In my original manuscript of the play were no 'gags' nor puns whatever. But Mr. Hamlin stated positively that no stage production could succeed without that accepted brand of humor, and as I knew I was wholly incompetent to write those 'comic paper side-splitters' I employed one of the foremost New York 'tinkerers' of plays to write into my manuscript these same jokes that are now declared 'wild and woolly' and 'smacking of Chicago humor.' If the New York critics only knew it, they are praising a Chicago author for the creation of the scenic effects and characters entirely new to the stage, and condemning a well-known New York dramatist for a brand of humor that is palpably peculiar to Puck and Judge. I am amused whenever a New York reviewer attacks the libretto of 'The Wizard of Oz' because it 'comes from Chicago.'"
    L. Frank Baum

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