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wood·en
(wo͝od′n)adj.
1. Made or consisting of wood.
2. Stiff and unnatural; without spirit: a wooden performance; a wooden smile.
3. Clumsy and awkward; ungainly.
wood′en·ly adv.
wood′en·ness n.
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wooden
(ˈwʊdən)adj
1. (Forestry) made from or consisting of wood
2. awkward or clumsy
3. bereft of spirit or animation: a wooden expression.
4. obstinately unyielding: a wooden attitude.
5. mentally slow or dull
6. not highly resonant: a wooden thud.
vb
(tr) slang Austral to fell or kill (a person or animal)
ˈwoodenly adv
ˈwoodenness n
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wood•en
(ˈwʊd n)adj.
1. consisting or made of wood; wood.
2. stiff, ungainly, or awkward: a wooden gait.
3. without spirit, animation, or awareness.
[1530–40]
wood′en•ly, adv.
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wooden
Past participle: woodened
Gerund: woodening
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| Adj. | 1. | wooden - made or consisting of (entirely or in part) or employing wood; "a wooden box"; "an ancient cart with wooden wheels" woody - made of or containing or resembling wood; "woody plants"; "perennial herbs with woody stems"; "a woody taste" |
| 2. | wooden - lacking ease or grace; "the actor's performance was wooden"; "a wooden smile" awkward - lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance; "an awkward dancer"; "an awkward gesture"; "too awkward with a needle to make her own clothes"; "his clumsy fingers produced an awkward knot" |
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wooden
adjective
1. made of wood, timber, woody, of wood, ligneous the shop's bare brick walls and wooden floorboards
2. awkward, stiff, rigid, clumsy, lifeless, stilted, ungainly, gauche, gawky, inelegant, graceless, maladroit The film is marred by the wooden acting of the star.
awkward flowing, elegant, flexible, graceful, supple, nimble, agile, comely, lissom(e)
awkward flowing, elegant, flexible, graceful, supple, nimble, agile, comely, lissom(e)
3. expressionless, empty, dull, blank, vacant, lifeless, deadpan, colourless, glassy, unresponsive, unemotional, emotionless, spiritless It's hard to tell from his wooden expression whether he's happy or sad.
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wooden
adjective1. So rigidly constrained, formal, or awkward as to lack all grace and spontaneity:
2. Lacking responsiveness or alertness:
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Translations
خَشَبِيّمَصنوع من الخَشَب
dřevěný
træ-
ligna
puinenpuiseva
drven
fa-fából való
tré-, úr tré
木製の
나무로 된
drevený
lesen
av trä
ที่ทำจากไม้
ağaç/tahtatahtadan
làm bằng gỗ
wooden
[ˈwʊdn]A. ADJ
1. (= made of wood) → de madera
2. (fig) (= lacking expression) [actor, performance] → acartonado, inexpresivo; [face, person] → rígido, inexpresivo; [style] → seco, poco expresivo
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
wooden
adj
wooden
:wooden spoon
woodenware
n → Holzwaren pl
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
wooden
[ˈwʊdn] adja. (made of wood) → di legno
b. (fig) (movements, manner) → impacciato/a, rigido/a; (face, stare) → inespressivo/a; (personality) → goffo/a
to give a wooden performance (actor) → recitare in maniera impacciata
to give a wooden performance (actor) → recitare in maniera impacciata
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
wood
(wud) noun1. (also adjective) (of) the material of which the trunk and branches of trees are composed. My desk is (made of) wood; She gathered some wood for the fire; I like the smell of a wood fire.
2. (often in plural) a group of growing trees. They went for a walk in the woods.
3. a golf-club whose head is made of wood.
ˈwooded adjective (of land) covered with trees. a wooded hillside.
ˈwooden adjective made of wood. three wooden chairs.
ˈwoody adjective1. covered with trees. woody countryside.
2. (of a smell etc) of or like wood.
ˈwood carving noun the art of carving wood.
ˈwoodcut noun a print made by pressing a block of wood with design cut on it onto paper.
ˈwoodcutter noun a person whose job is felling trees.
ˈwoodland noun land covered with woods. a stretch of woodland.
ˈwoodlouse – plural ˈwoodlice – noun a tiny creature with a jointed shell, found under stones etc.
ˈwoodpecker noun a type of bird which pecks holes in the bark of trees, searching for insects.
ˈwood pulp noun pulp from wood that can be used for making paper.
ˈwoodwind (-wind) noun (in an orchestra, the group of people who play) wind instruments made of wood.
ˈwoodwork noun1. the art of making things from wood; carpentry. He did woodwork at school.
2. the wooden part of any structure. The woodwork in the house is rotting.
ˈwoodworm – plurals ˈwoodworm, ~woodworms – noun the larva of a certain type of beetle, which bores into wood and destroys it.
out of the wood(s) out of danger.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
wooden
→ خَشَبِيّ dřevěný træ- hölzern ξύλινος de madera puinen en bois drven di legno 木製の 나무로 된 houten tre- drewniany de madeira деревянный av trä ที่ทำจากไม้ ağaç/tahta làm bằng gỗ 木质的Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009