woolliness


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wool·ly

also wool·y  (wo͝ol′ē)
adj. wool·li·er, wool·li·est also wool·i·er or wool·i·est
1.
a. Relating to, consisting of, or covered with wool.
b. Resembling wool.
2.
a. Lacking sharp detail or clarity: woolly television reception.
b. Mentally or intellectually disorganized or unclear: woolly thinking.
3. Rough, disorderly, or unrestrained: "newspaper ads called for ... stricter gun control everywhere in this wild and woolly nation" (Ed McBain).
n. pl. wool·lies also wool·ies
1. A garment made of wool, especially an undergarment of knitted wool.
2. Australian A sheep.

wool′li·ness n.
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Translations
صوفِيَّه
uldenhed
gyapjasság
e-r/e-î sem er óskÿr/ruglingslegur
zmätenosť
yünlülük

woolliness

wooliness (US) [ˈwʊlɪnɪs] N
1. [of material, garment, sheep] → lanosidad f, lo lanoso
2. (= vagueness) [of ideas, thinking, essay] → vaguedad f, imprecisión f; [of person] → confusión f
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woolliness

, (US) wooliness
nWolligkeit f; (= softness also)Flauschigkeit f; (fig: of outline) → Verschwommenheit f; (pej, of mind, idea) → Verworrenheit f, → Wirrheit f
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wool

(wul) noun, adjective
(of) the soft hair of sheep and some other animals, often made into yarn etc for knitting or into fabric for making clothes etc. I wear wool in winter; knitting-wool; a wool blanket.
ˈwoollen adjective
made of wool. a woollen hat.
ˈwoollens noun plural
clothes (especially jumpers etc) made of wool. Woollens should be washed by hand.
ˈwoolly adjective
1. made of, or like, wool. a woolly jumper/rug.
2. (also ˌwoolly-ˈheaded) (of a person) vague or hazy. She's too woolly(-headed) to be in charge of a department.
nounplural ˈwoollies
a knitted garment.
ˈwoolliness noun
pull the wool over someone's eyes
to deceive someone.
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The woolliness of Wallace's denial has prompted an angry response from the Union of Fans group representing the rump of Gers' supporters' groups.
"High color is in her cheeks, a note of rising indignation in her voice, she leans across the polished table and flatly rejects what she calls the 'woolliness' of our secondstage formulation," Rentschler writes.
Australia is fortunate to have largely weathered the global downturn and to possess a federal structure that permits a degree of woolliness at the top.
A basic element of this misfortune is the seminal absence of intellectual rigour in the political thought of our founding fathers--a tendency to pious materialistic woolliness and self-centred pedestrianism (Trouble, 11).
BIG SOCIETY WAS MASKING EVEN BIGGER CUTS PHIL REDMOND: RUBBISH NAME BUT I STILL BELIEVE IN 'BIG SOCIETY' ECHO political reporter Ian Hernon on how Cameron's 'Big Idea' became regarded as a gimmick to cover a Tory agenda THE Big Society was always going to be undermined by spending cuts, the hype and the woolliness behind its presentation.
And this simplicity and woolliness is mirrored in the semi-official Big Society Network, set up by social entrepreneurs Paul Twivy and Martyn Rose.