furry
/ˈfəːri
/adjective (furrier, furriest)
1Covered with fur: furry creatures in fields...
- They stand aghast that a person can devote so much of their busy life to quiet conversations with these furry friends.
- You need them spaced at intervals of about 2m, with the baited ends placed across the routes used by your furry friends.
- It delivers 7,000 furry friends to seven hospitals in the area each year.
Synonyms
covered with fur, hairy, long-haired, downy, fleecy, soft, fluffy, fuzzy, woolly
1.1Having a soft surface like fur: a layer of furry soot...
- It was made of a soft furry material, creamish white. Oh how she had admired that bag!
- When I stoop to feel the texture of a small furry leaf, she quickly tells me not to touch the plants.
- That makes this leaf eater with its furry feet one of the rarest animals in the world.
Derivatives
furriness
- Now there were dried cat-tails standing on both sides of the trail, most of their brown furriness still clinging tightly to the top couple inches of stalk.
- After years of hair-loathing, my furriness was no longer offensive to me.
- Imagine my frustration when my strong urge to be one with the boys was thwarted by my furriness!
Rhymes
- penetrably
- penetralia
- penetralium
- penetrameter
- penetrance
- penetrancy
- penetrant
- penetrate
- penetrating
- penetratingly
- penetration
- penetration agent
- penetration aid
- penetration twin
- penetrative
- penetratively
- penetrativeness
- penetrator
- penetrometer
- pen-feathered
- pen-fed
- penfieldite
- pen-fish
- pen-form
- penfriend