Cottony

Word COTTONY
Character 7
Hyphenation cot ton y
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Cottony"

What do we mean by cottony?

Of or resembling cotton; fluffy. adjective

Covered with fibers resembling cotton; nappy. adjective

Like cotton; downy; nappy. Also formerly cottonous.

Covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly. adjective

Of or pertaining to cotton; resembling cotton in appearance or character; soft, like cotton. adjective

Having some characteristics of cotton; soft and fluffy adjective

Resembling cotton; as soft as cotton adjective

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The word "cottony" in example sentences

That like a broken purpose waste in air; and dappled with hanging mists, white as snow, and 'sun-clouds,' as the natives term the cottony nimbus -- is easily mistaken, in the dim light of dawn, for a line of towering cliffs. ❋ Richard Francis Burton (1855)

Scientists recently discovered that the insect called the cottony cushion scale isn't hermaphroditic - it's incestuous. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I had waked up with a kind of cottony feeling in my throat, and as hot coffee and toast didn't seem to help it, I made an examination with a hand-mirror after breakfast. ❋ Olive Higgins Prouty (1928)

It was mid-April, and the sun was God with a scalpel, slicing clean the edges of the leaves, the clusters of sick-sweet lilac, and the silkworm webbing that hung from the trees above us in a marvelous cottony cancer. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She fought through cottony layers of sleep and forced her eyes open. ❋ Elizabeth Woods (2011)

Sweat oozes from my skin and my mouth turns cottony; my tongue becomes too lazy to work. ❋ T.J. Forrester (2011)

But here comes the good news: Since the ingested material was presumed to be soft and cottony, we'd try and have her throw it up. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Great plains of cottony skygrasses and drifting snows ❋ Mike Ragogna (2011)

The sky is blue except for some cottony white clouds here and there. ❋ Todd Strasser (2011)

Then, when I got Shawn to come look she said, "I don't know, it looks more cottony to me." ❋ Lyda222 (2009)

I eased between the stems, liberating a blizzard of cottony seeds that clung to my clothes. ❋ Unknown (2011)

So I printed up dozens of Serenity movie replica bills of various denominations, wrinkled them up obsessively until they were cottony smooth, and the characters now use that in lieu of writing the numbers of credits on their character sheets. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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