wooden
/'wudn/
Học thuậtThân thiện
Definition
- Adjective:
- Made from wood: Consisting of or constructed using wood as the primary material.
- Stiff and unnatural: Lacking ease, grace, or natural expression; appearing awkward, rigid, or emotionally blank.
Examples of Usage
- Made from wood:
- The children played with a set of wooden blocks.
- They crossed the old wooden bridge carefully.
- Stiff and unnatural:
- His wooden delivery made the speech difficult to listen to.
- She gave a wooden smile for the camera.
Advanced Usage
- "wooden performance": A performance by an actor, musician, or public speaker that is stiff, lacking in emotion, and unconvincing.
- Despite the great script, the lead actor's wooden performance disappointed the critics.
- "wooden expression": A facial expression that is blank, fixed, or shows no genuine feeling.
- He listened to the news with a completely wooden expression.
Variants and Related Words
- Wood (noun): The hard fibrous material from trees, used for building, carving, and fuel.
- Woodenly (adverb): In a stiff, awkward, or unnatural manner.
- He nodded woodenly in agreement.
Synonyms
- For "made from wood": Timber, woody.
- For "stiff and unnatural": Stiff, rigid, awkward, stilted, expressionless, lifeless.
Related Idioms
- "A wooden nickel": Something that is fake or worthless. (Note: This idiom uses "wooden" as part of a compound noun).
- His promise turned out to be a wooden nickel.
- "Wooden spoon" (historical): A symbolic prize given to the person who comes last in a competition, originally at Cambridge University.
- Our team finished last and got the wooden spoon.
Adjective
- lacking ease or grace
- the actor's performance was wooden
- a wooden smile
- made or consisting of (entirely or in part) or employing wood
- a wooden box
- an ancient cart with wooden wheels