Meaning

6 senses
  1. Made of wool.

    Put on a woolly jumper and turn down the thermostat.

    wollen, Woll-

    шерстяно́йšerstjanój

  2. Having a thick, soft texture, as if made of wool.

    woolly hair

    There was nothing left in the fruit bowl but a brown banana and a couple of woolly pears.

    wollartig, wollig, zottig

  3. (figuratively)Unclear, fuzzy, hazy, cloudy.

    That's the sort of woolly thinking that causes wars to start.

    blumig, wolkig, verklärt

  4. (US, informal)Uncivilized and unruly.

    wild and woolly

  5. (obsolete)Clothed in wool.

  6. (archaic, slang)Cross; irritable.

More definitions
  • covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments
  • covered with dense often matted or curly hairs
  • having a fluffy character or appearance
  • confused and vague; used especially of thinking

Examples

19 sentences
  1. Woolly mammoths once roamed the earth.

    deDie Wollhaarmammuts wandelten einst auf Erden.

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  2. Mennad's woolly hat is very comfy.

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  3. She was wearing a woolly jumper.

    deSie trug einen Wollpullover.

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  4. It is still a woolly concept.

    deDas ist noch immer ein verschwommenes Konzept.

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  5. Can the woolly mammoth be brought back?

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Translations

8 languages
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By meaning 1
made of wool:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
made of wool:
having a thick, soft texture, as if made of wool:
unclear, fuzzy, hazy, cloudy:

Origin

From Middle English wolly, equivalent to wool + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian wullich

From Middle English wolly, equivalent to wool + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian wullich (“woolly”), Dutch wollig (“woolly”), German wollig (“woolly”), Swedish ullig (“woolly”).

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Forms

woollier, woolliest
Comparativewoollier Lesson
Superlativewoolliest Lesson

regular

Synonyms

11 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

23 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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