Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Made or consisting of wood.
- adjective Stiff and unnatural; without spirit.
- adjective Clumsy and awkward; ungainly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Made of wood; consisting of wood.
- Stiff; ungainly; clumsy; awkward; spirit less; expressionless: as, a wooden stare.
- Dull; stupid, as if with no more sensation than wood.
- Of the woods; sylvan.
- An instrument of military punishment consisting of a beam or timber, sometimes set with sharp points, upon which the culprit was compelled to sit astride, having in some instances weights tied to his feet.
- See
spoon . - =Syn.1. See
leaden .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Made or consisting of wood; pertaining to, or resembling, wood.
- adjective Clumsy; awkward; ungainly; stiff; spiritless.
- adjective (Cambridge University, Eng.) In some American colleges, the lowest appointee of the junior year; sometimes, one especially popular in his class, without reference to scholarship. Formerly, it was a custom for classmates to present to this person a wooden spoon with formal ceremonies.
- adjective a general name for buckets, bowls, and other articles of domestic use, made of wood.
- adjective See under
Wedding .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Made of
wood : "a wooden boat". - adjective As if made of wood (figuratively):
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lacking ease or grace
- adjective made or consisting of (entirely or in part) or employing wood
Etymologies
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Examples
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Time has also dealt leniently with the picture, for it is as clear and bright as the day it was painted, and is carefully preserved in its original frame, into which a sliding wooden panel is made to fit and cover it: the outside being emblazoned with the _armes parlantes_ of the family of Holzschuher -- a _wooden shoe_, raised from the ground in the manner of the Venetian _chopine_.
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In Full Moon, Mam is desperate to be an actress but gives an entirely new meaning to the word "wooden" - and the fact my late mother wanted desperately to act, and enjoyed amateur dramatics until she got too old to remember her lines, bless her, is equally beside the point.
WalesOnline - Home WalesOnline 2011
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I don't have a peel yet that's what you call the wooden thing, but I just rolled out the dough on a well-floured thin plastic mat that you use for rolling out pie dough, etc..
MY NEW COUNTERTOP "BRICK OVEN" Bryanna Clark Grogan 2008
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No matter what grade classroom you teach in, having literacy based designs in wooden classroom furniture can help enhance …
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The torment he feels over this contradiction eats at him as people he could have easily saved at his high tech hospital die on his plain wooden table, but it becomes so much worse when the Amish girl he has come to love falls gravely ill.
Tides from the New Worlds: The Shackles of Freedom « A Working Title 2009
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Once it's distilled, it's aged in wooden barrels -- both new barrels and used ones that have contained everything from sherry to bourbon -- which affects the color and flavor of the finished product.
Tony Sachs: Yo-Ho-Ho And A Snifter Of Rum: Sipping Rums To Enjoy Without Paper Umbrellas Tony Sachs 2010
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Morning sessions were followed by huge lunches in wooden huts perched on the shoulders of the mountains – restaurants such as Sigmund's (Gasthof Schwaiger) and Gasthof Tiroler.
Family ski: never say never in South Tyrol Martin Love 2010
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No matter what grade classroom you teach in, having literacy based designs in wooden classroom furniture can help enhance …
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Once it's distilled, it's aged in wooden barrels -- both new barrels and used ones that have contained everything from sherry to bourbon -- which affects the color and flavor of the finished product.
Tony Sachs: Yo-Ho-Ho And A Snifter Of Rum: Sipping Rums To Enjoy Without Paper Umbrellas Tony Sachs 2010
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Once it's distilled, it's aged in wooden barrels -- both new barrels and used ones that have contained everything from sherry to bourbon -- which affects the color and flavor of the finished product.
Tony Sachs: Yo-Ho-Ho And A Snifter Of Rum: Sipping Rums To Enjoy Without Paper Umbrellas Tony Sachs 2010
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