woolly

Other forms of woolly

comparative or superlative

woollier

comparative or superlative

woolliest

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about woolly

What does woolly mean?

woolly means "having a fluffy character or appearance". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in woolly?

woolly has 2 syllables: wool-ly. The stress falls on "wool". In IPA it is /ˈwʊli/.

What is another word for woolly?

Close synonyms include flocculent, wooly, addled, befuddled, muddled. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is woolly a common word?

woolly is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with woolly?

2 words rhyme with woolly. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.