1 [usuallybeforenoun] made of wood:
a wooden box
2 not showing enough natural expression, emotion or movement:
The actor playing the father was too wooden. * Her voice sounded wooden and lifeless as she struggled to control her feelings.
woodenly adverb:
She speaks her lines very woodenly.
woodenness noun [U]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for wooden is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is wooden a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, wooden is tagged as adjective.
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