'Wooden' definitions:
Definition of 'wooden'
From: WordNet
adjective
Made or consisting of (entirely or in part) or employing wood; "a wooden box"; "an ancient cart with wooden wheels"
adjective
Lacking ease or grace; "the actor's performance was wooden"; "a wooden smile"
Definition of 'Wooden'
From: GCIDE
- Wooden \Wood"en\, a.
- 1. Made or consisting of wood; pertaining to, or resembling, wood; as, a wooden box; a wooden leg; a wooden wedding. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Clumsy; awkward; ungainly; stiff; spiritless. [1913 Webster]
- When a bold man is out of countenance, he makes a very wooden figure on it. --Collier. [1913 Webster]
- His singing was, I confess, a little wooden. --G. MacDonald. [1913 Webster]
- Wooden spoon. (a) (Cambridge University, Eng.) The last junior optime who takes a university degree, -- denoting one who is only fit to stay at home and stir porridge. "We submit that a wooden spoon of our day would not be justified in calling Galileo and Napier blockheads because they never heard of the differential calculus." --Macaulay. (b) 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.
- Wooden ware, a general name for buckets, bowls, and other articles of domestic use, made of wood.
- Wooden wedding. See under Wedding. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'wooden'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- arid,
- awkward,
- barren,
- blah,
- blank,
- bloodless,
- blunt,
- blunt-witted,
- buckram,
- bumbling,
- cardboard,
- characterless,
- clumsy,
- cold,
- colorless,
- dead,
- deadpan,
- dim,
- dim-witted,
- dismal,
- dopey,
- draggy,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- dry,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- dull of mind,
- dull-headed,
- dull-pated,
- dull-witted,
- dusty,
- effete,
- elephantine,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- expressionless,
- fade,
- fat-witted,
- fishy,
- flat,
- gauche,
- glassy,
- gross-headed,
- halting,
- ham-handed,
- heavy,
- heavy-handed,
- hebetudinous,
- ho-hum,
- hollow,
- impassive,
- inane,
- inept,
- inexcitable,
- inexpressive,
- insipid,
- jejune,
- leaden,
- lifeless,
- low-spirited,
- maladroit,
- muscle-bound,
- obtuse,
- pale,
- pallid,
- pedestrian,
- plodding,
- pointless,
- poker-faced,
- poky,
- ponderous,
- slow,
- slow-witted,
- sluggish,
- solemn,
- spiritless,
- sterile,
- stiff,
- stilted,
- stodgy,
- stuffy,
- superficial,
- tasteless,
- tedious,
- thick-brained,
- thick-headed,
- thick-pated,
- thick-witted,
- thickskulled,
- unexpressive,
- unhandy,
- unhappy,
- unlively,
- vacant,
- vapid,
- weighty