woodenadjective
uk/ˈwʊd.ən/us/ˈwʊd.ən/wooden adjective (WOOD)
A2 made of wood:
The house was surrounded by a tall, wooden fence.
Stir the mixture with a wooden spoon.
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- We could hear the clump of his feet on the wooden floor.
- This wooden instrument is the ancestor of the modern metal flute.
- The top of the wooden chest was inlaid with ivory.
- Her eyes rested on a small wooden box at the back of the shop.
- The floor is held up by wooden supports.
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Types of wood
- balsa wood
- bark
- close-grained
- ebony
- firewood
- hickory
- jelutong
- lumber
- maple
- matchwood
- MDF
- mulga
- oak
- oaken
- pine
- rosewood
- three-ply
- wood
- wood pulp
- yew
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wooden adjective (AWKWARD)
disapproving used to describe behaviour that is awkward or shows little expression:
She gave a wooden smile to the camera.
I thought the lead actor gave rather a wooden performance.
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Not showing or feeling emotions
- anodyne
- belie
- bite
- bite your lip idiom
- clinically
- detachment
- emptiness
- evenly
- expressionless
- glaze
- hard-bitten
- icy
- internalize
- phlegmatic
- po-faced
- poker-faced
- reserved
- sphinx-like
- stiff upper lip
- stoic
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Inability and awkwardness