cottony | Definition of cottony

Synonyms and Antonyms of cottony

1 covered with or as if with hair

that gray, cottony spot on the bread is mold

Synonyms of cottony

bristly, brushy, fleecy, furred, furry, hairy, hirsute, rough, shaggy, silky, unshorn, woolly (also wooly)

Words Related to cottony

bearded, bewhiskered, mustachioed (also moustachioed), whiskered

stubbled, stubbly

downy, fluffy, fuzzy, linty, nappy

Near Antonyms of cottony

beardless, shaved, shaven

Antonyms of cottony

bald, furless, glabrous, hairless, shorn, smooth

2 smooth or delicate in appearance or feel

fluffy, cottony hair

Synonyms of cottony

downy, satin, satiny, silken, silklike, silky, soft, velvetlike, velvety

Words Related to cottony

chiffon, delicate, fine, slick

Near Antonyms of cottony

bumpy, irregular, jagged, lumpy, pebbly

broken, jagged, ragged, roughened, rugged, scraggy

grainy, granular, gritty

Antonyms of cottony

coarse, harsh, rough, scratchy