Synonyms for wool
wʊlwool

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:1.0 / 3 votes

1. wooladjective

   Synonyms:
   woolen, woollen

2. Woolnoun

   A town in Dorset, England.

   Synonyms:
   woollen, woolen

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 2 votes

1. wool, woolen, woollennoun

   a fabric made from the hair of sheep

   Synonyms:
   woollen, fleece, woolen

2. woolnoun

   fiber sheared from animals (such as sheep) and twisted into yarn for weaving

   Synonyms:
   woollen, fleece, woolen

3. wool, fleecenoun

   outer coat of especially sheep and yaks

   Synonyms:
   woollen, fleece, sheepskin, woolen

Matched Categories

1. • Animal Fiber
   • Coat
   • Fabric

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. woolnoun

   Synonyms:
   fleece, worsted, merino, pelotage, mortling

   Associated words:
   laniferous, lanifical, lanigerous, lanolin, depilate, depilation, depilatory

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:2.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "wool":

   laine, lana, woollen, fleece, yarn

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1. Minor Myers:

   These cases suggest appraisal can still be a useful remedy for a stockholder, but you can't just have a briefcase full of analysis and hope to pull the wool over a judge's eyes.

2. Ryder Cup:

   You can wrap yourself up in cotton wool for the rest of your life if you want but having a little kickaround with your mates, I would have said 999 times out of 1,000 you are good, he got unlucky, it was just one of those situations that's caught him out. It was a freak accident but accidents happen.

3. Derek Gatherer:

   Almost all human cases occur in individuals involved in processing animal products, either for food or in the animal wool/skins industry and 95 per cent of these are via skin infection.

4. Jason Verstak:

   Thanks to technological innovations, synthetic carpets are becoming softer and more luxurious all the time, generally speaking, they are more cost-efficient, hard-wearing and stain-resistant than pure wool carpets.

5. Miguel de Cervantes:

   Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.