Difference between Woolly and Soft

What is the difference between Woolly and Soft?

Woolly as an adjective is made of wool. while Soft as an adjective is giving way under pressure.

Woolly

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Made of wool. Having a thick, soft texture, as if made of wool. Of thinking, principles, etc, based on emotion rather than logic.

Soft

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Giving way under pressure.Smooth and flexible.Gentle.Having an acute angle.Quiet.voiced, sonantvoicelesspalatalizedLacking strength or resolve, wimpy.Low in dissolved calcium compounds.(Northern British, colloquial) Foolish.Of a ferromagnetic material; a material that becomes essentially non magnetic when an external magnetic field is removed, a material with a low magnetic coercivity. (c.f. hard)

Example sentence: As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

We hope you now know whether to use Woolly or Soft in your sentence.

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