woolly-headed
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9.1
- adjective
- /ˈwʊliˈhɛdɪd/
- Offensive
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- His woolly-headed ideas led to confusion during the meeting, leaving everyone unsure about the plan.
Examples
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Bad parenting, woolly-headed political correctness, ineffective and inappropriate education, and a society that has generally given up.
Blog text (19) -
A big, slow-witted, woolly-headed, thick-lipped boy; never asking for the axe, but once he had taken it, he would not give it back until the last piece of wood had been cut.
Fiction book (1993) -
I knew I had one woolly-headed son in the family, but I...
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I knew we had one woolly-headed son in this family...
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Wilby isn't woolly-headed!
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I think that most people who think of themselves as serious thinkers would tend to assume that anybody in Magic must be some kind of woolly-headed New Age mystical type that believes every horoscope that they read in the newspaper.
Blog text (22) -
Despite woolly-headed academic notions to the contrary, democracy was born in the No-Man's Land between phalanxes of heavily armed helots.
Blog text (29) -
Obviously, that sort of woolly-headed thinking is based on a deterministic presupposition that the very act of creating the world absolutely determined all the events that would happen in the world, which is not one iota different from atheistic nihilism.
Blog text (16) -
She tends to be woolly-headed about important details, which can complicate our discussions.
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The woolly-headed approach of the proposal made it difficult to understand the main objectives.
Synonyms
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5.4
Confused and not in clear order so hard to understand
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7.3
Confused and unable to think clearly
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7.9
Slow to understand simple ideas or instructions
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7.0
Vague and unclear in thought or expression
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9.1
Confused and unable to think clearly
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8.6
Feeling confused and not able to think clearly
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8.1
Not quick to understand or learn new things
Having confused, unclear thoughts that do not make sense
Confused and unable to think clearly
Slow to understand or learn things
Being very foolish and clumsy in how someone thinks or acts
Silly and confused in the way someone thinks
Too silly and not careful about important things
Antonyms
How Clear-headed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Woolly-headed comes from the image of wool covering the head, making your thoughts feel 'fuzzy' and unclear. So, to be woolly-headed is to be 'confused' or 'vague' in your thinking.