woolly-headed

Questions about woolly-headed

What does woolly-headed mean?

woolly-headed means "confused and vague; used especially of thinking".

How many syllables are in woolly-headed?

woolly-headed has 5 syllables and divides as wo-ol-ly--hea-ded under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for woolly-headed?

Close synonyms include addled, befuddled, muddled, muzzy, woolly. 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-headed a common word?

woolly-headed is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.