wooden
Adjective Satellite
- made or consisting of (entirely or in part) or employing wood
- "a wooden box"
- "an ancient cart with wooden wheels"
- lacking ease or grace
- "the actor's performance was wooden"
- "a wooden smile"
Adj
- Made of wood.
- As if made of wood; moving awkwardly, or speaking with dull lack of emotion.
Adjective
- Resembling wood in stiffness, texture, or lacking liveliness and emotion.
Examples
- a wooden boat
- His opponent’s WOODEN face gave no clue about their next Words With Friends move.
- On a recent windy day, hundreds of visitors climbed wooden stairs to take pictures in front of the glacier.
- wooden acting
Origin / Etymology
PIE word
*dwóh₁
From wood + -en. Dates from 1530s, gradually replaced treen (“made from a tree”), from Middle English treen, from Old English triewen.
Scrabble Score: 10
wooden: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordwooden: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
wooden: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 11
wooden: valid Words With Friends Word