What are some opposite words for cotton wool?
Antonyms for cotton woolcot·ton wool
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cotton, cotton fiber, cotton woolnoun
soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state
Synonyms:
cotton plant, cotton, cotton fiber
Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD
cotton wool
Synonyms:
Absorbent cotton
How to use cotton wool in a sentence?
Northern Irishman Rory McIlroy:
You've got to look after yourself, you're an athlete, you have a window of opportunity. It doesn't mean you've got to put yourself in cotton wool but some things you've just got to think twice about.
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.
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