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Wooden

Wooden Meaning & Definition
Wooden Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Wooden?

[adj] lacking ease or grace; "the actor's performance was wooden"; "a wooden smile"
[adj] made or consisting of (entirely or in part) or employing wood; "a wooden box"; "an ancient cart with wooden wheels"; "wood houses"; "a wood fire"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Wooden: awkward | wood(a) | woody

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Wooden In Webster's Dictionary

\Wood"en\, a. 1. Made or consisting of wood; pertaining to, or resembling, wood; as, a wooden box; a wooden leg; a wooden wedding. 2. Clumsy; awkward; ungainly; stiff; spiritless. When a bold man is out of countenance, he makes a very wooden figure on it. --Collier. His singing was, I confess, a little wooden. --G. MacDonald. {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}.

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