wooly-minded s confused and vague; used especially of thinking Usage(s) To the wooly-minded PTI editor who characterized Walter Stace's attempt at a solution of the problem of moral standards as "wooly-minded," an onion. Stace's own, wooly-minded attempt at a solution: a new kind of morality found in the "psychological laws" of human behavior. Synonym(s) addled befuddled muddled muzzy woolly wooly woolly-headed