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woolly-minded

woolly-minded is the alternative form of woolly-headed.

Meaning of woolly-headed

Adjective

woolly-headed (comparative more woolly-headed, superlative most woolly-headed)

  1. Synonym of nappy: having tightly curled and frizzy hair.
    • The Blacks in Guinea are Woolly-headed.1708 Feb 25, The British Apollo
    Synonyms:
    nappy
  2. (offensive, possibly) Synonym of fuzzy-headed: characterized by vague or confused thinking, dull-witted.

Forms of woolly-minded

comparativemore woolly-minded
superlativemost woolly-minded
alternative formwooly-minded

Questions about woolly-minded

What is woolly-minded the alternative form of?
Woolly-minded is the alternative form of woolly-headed.

Words near woolly-minded in the dictionary

  1. woolly worms
  2. woolly-head
  3. woolly-headed
  4. woolly-headedness
  5. woolly-heads
  6. woolly-minded
  7. woolly-pate
  8. woolly-pated
  9. woollyback
  10. woollybacks
  11. woollybutt

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Adapted from Wiktionary: woolly-minded (page history and authors); woolly-headed (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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