wooden

(wʊd'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.

woodenly wood'en·ly adv.
woodenness wood'en·ness n.

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adjective

1. So rigidly constrained, formal, or awkward as to lack all grace and spontaneity: buckram, starchy, stiff, stilted. See flexible/rigid.
2. Lacking responsiveness or alertness: benumbed, dull, insensible, insensitive, numb, stuporous, torpid, unresponsive. See awareness/unawareness.

adj

Definition: stiff, inflexible
Antonyms: bending, flexible, pliable

IN BRIEF: adj. - Lacking ease or grace; Made or consisting of (entirely or in part) or employing the by-product of a tree.

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882).

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verb trans.
verb trans., Austral and NZ

To hit; to knock unconscious. (1904 —) .
A. Upfield Got woodened with something wot wasn't a bike chain (1959). Also woodener, noun A staggering blow, a knock-out punch. (1899 —) .

[From wooden adjective, perh. after stiffen verb, to kill.]

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For a list of words related to wooden, see:

• Cold, Unfriendly, Irritable, or Cruel

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See words rhyming with "wooden."

Dansk (Danish)
adj. - træ-, af træ, stiv, klodset, udtryksløs, knastør

idioms:

• wooden spoon    træske

Nederlands (Dutch)
houten, houterig

Français (French)
adj. - de bois, en bois, (fig) figé

idioms:

• wooden spoon    cuillère en bois, (fig) prix de consolation

Deutsch (German)
adj. - Holz-, hölzern

idioms:

• wooden spoon    Trostpreis, Holzlöffel

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - ξύλινος, άκαμπτος, δύσκαμπτος, (μτφ.) ανέκφραστος

idioms:

• wooden spoon    έπαθλο παρηγοριάς

Italiano (Italian)
di legno, goffo

idioms:

• wooden spoon    ultimo arrivato

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - de madeira, tolo

idioms:

• wooden spoon    colher de madeira (f)

Русский (Russian)
деревянный, безжизненный, тупой

idioms:

• wooden spoon    деревянная ложка для помешивания, последнее место (в соревновании)

Español (Spanish)
adj. - de madera, de palo, inexpresivo, tieso

idioms:

• wooden spoon    cuchara de palo, premio de consolación

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - trä-, träaktig, stel, torr, uttryckslös, andefattig

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
木制的, 木然的, 呆笨的

idioms:

• wooden spoon    末位奖, 得末位奖的人, 烹调时用的木匙

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 木製的, 木然的, 呆笨的

idioms:

• wooden spoon    末位獎, 得末位獎的人, 烹調時用的木匙

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 나무로 만든, 생기 없는, 무뚝뚝한

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 木製の, ぎこちない, 生気のない

idioms:

• wooden spoon    木さじ, びり

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) خشبي, متخشب, متيبس, أخرق, جاف, غبي‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮עשוי עץ, מעוצה, עצי, חסר-חום, צונן, נטול-הבעה, מסורבל‬

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